Sociality, and especially sociocultural activities in the community are very important when experiencing the value and meaning of the person’s life, developing such qualities as friendship, spirituality, mutual understanding, responsibility and self-help, preserving traditions and national culture, feeling secure and satisfied. The aim of this thesis is to discuss senior pupils’ participation peciliarities in useful social activities considering territorial community. Pupils’ useful social activities in the territorial community is one of the innovations which appeared when implementing education reform. Social (useful for the society) activities are the civil, ecological and other activities offered or chosen by the pupils themselves and performed at a suitable time. The aim of these activities is to develop pupils’ understanding of values, personal, social, communication and work skills, which are called general personal skills in the General Syllabus. The research has shown that school’s openness to the local community’s social, cultural and civil needs establishing partnership with various institutions determines the peculiarities of the useful social activities. It was also observed that pupils, who live in the city, have greater possibilities to choose useful social activities than the ones who live in the region. However, region school pupils have taken more active part in useful social activities in the recent years than the city pupils.

In this master’s final paper are formulated the problems of very rapidly changeable social processes and created the country communities influence to the ability of community members to adapt for the new conditions; It analyzed and systematized the different Lithuania’s and foreign author’s theoretical and practical research into the country community and social tension. The paper presents a detailed analysis of legal acts of Lithuania which are forming the social policy of the country. The main purpose of this research is an analysis of country communities’ influence to the social tension through the peculiarity of building up Lithuania’s country communities now. In order to reach this objective it was used the quantitative research, closed type questionnaire. There were found-out the main, social tensions, taking part in the country and, also, the influence of country’s community reducing these tensions. Moreover the author’s formulated hypothesis was proved that activity of recently launched organizations in the country is pointed to concentrate communities’ population to reduce theirs tensions. However nowadays country’s communities do not have significant influence to the process of solving population’s social problems. The results and conclusions of this research present the fact that it is essential to enhance the proceeding of newly launched country’s communities in order to increase the life quality of all communities and to reduce their social tenses.

The aim of the thesis: to define a concept of direct people participation and find out a variety of it's forms, to measure local government's impact of direct citizenry participation level n municipalities of Lithuania, to identify the main problems of direct participation and suggest the solutions of the problems. The principal concepts and forms of direct participation are defined by analyzing gathered scientific literature, experience of foreign countries and the survey's data.