Inna Viktorovna Vasilenko, The Social Content of Savings and Saving Behavior: Clarification of Concepts, The Social Sciences, Volume 11,Issue 29, 2016, Pages 7047-7053, ISSN 1818-5800, sscience.2016.7047.7053, (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7047.7053) Abstract: The study shows the economic and sociological approaches to the concepts of "savings" and "saving behavior" defining their structural elements as well as considers methodological avenues to deepen the social content of these concepts and phenomena. Social content of saving behavior is considered in conjunction with the external, contextual and internal, dispositional and value-conscious, components. Keywords: Savings;saving behavior;economic approaches;sociological approaches;social content;social context;social practices;real-life experience;dispositions;value-conscious orientations