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The study of scientific achievements in the formation of professional ethics for future social workers at universities allows us to conclude that this scientific category was considered comprehensively. However, the research did not outline the methodical foundations for the formation of professional ethics for future specialists. The development of this problem is encountered in the scientific and pedagogical works of O. Asherov, S. Goncharenko, O. Kiveryalga, G. Ponomarev and other scientists. Aims. The aim is to reveal the specifics of the methodological aspects of the study of the process of forming the professional ethics of future social workers. Objectives: to specify the definitions: «research method», «professional ethics»; methodical tool for studying the identified problem. The methodology of the research is to develop and substantiate the conceptual provisions of the problem under investigation. The research methodology is a set of characteristics of scientific and pedagogical research, consisting of such elements: problem, topic, relevance, object, subject of research, its purpose, task, hypothesis, theoretical positions, novelty (scientific and practical), meaning for science and practice, the logic of pedagogical research, the directions of further exploration. It is supposed to solve the following tasks: to analyze the state of development of the problem under study in the scientific literature and in practice; to develop the author's conception of formation of professional ethics of future social workers; to substantiate scientific approaches, principles, psychological and pedagogical conditions and to create a model of formation of professional ethics of future social workers of universities; to develop a system of formation of professional ethics for future social workers and to experimentally verify its effectiveness in the educational work of universities; to carry out a prognostic justification of the prospects for the formation of professional ethics of future social workers of universities in the conditions of innovative progress of society. It was found that the essence of professional ethics consists in certain professional and moral values, knowledge, skills, qualities that provide the professionalism of specialists. The method of research of the process of formation of professional ethics of future social workers of universities is outlined. The hypothesis, tasks and stages of the research are analyzed.