The main feature of social and economic rights is that their implementation requires governmental assistance and control for realization. Therefore, the stance on the present category of rights and freedoms is quite ambiguous. Scientific analysis and generalization of actual variety of socio-economic rights are complicated with the fact the classification of considered categories of rights cannot be based on emphasizing one and only criterion. The main goal of this paper is the studying of legal content and issues of classification of social and economic rights of man. To reach this goal authors have used analysis methods. Having analyzed works of Belova-Ganeva G. it was elicited the essence of socio-economic rights lays in the fact ʽthey help to reduce unjustified social differences and provide individual with the possibility of getting benefits or services and having state supportʽ. The variety of rights’ content comprising the present group results in the situation when the same right, in virtue of various grounds, can be attributed to two or more classified groups. The difference between goals becomes visible within the process of normative setting of separate socio-economic rights and when subjects exercise them. Correspondingly, in the present work authors distinguish rights in the sphere of property and economic activity for one group, while the second group includes rights in the sphere of social security and social insurance.