The article focuses on various scientific points of view on the definition of appellations of «approach» «methodological approach» in scientific sources. The author's interpretation of the definition of «methodological approach» is given. A number of methodological approaches are defined and their content on the formation of communicative culture of future social workers in the system of university education is given; in particular such approaches, as culturological-axiological, personality-oriented, competence, creative-activity and content-procedural. Consideration of a set of complementary methodological approaches to the formation of communicative culture of future social workers in the university education system is due to the fact that this complexity provides an opportunity at the theoretical, methodological and practical levels to build a holistic process of future social worker’s training, to highlight the main trends of it’s functioning in the formation of the personality of a social worker, in understanding it’s personal capabilities, abilities and prospects of enriching it’s own professional experience, in the formation of it’s communicative culture. Given all the above, we can say that the formation of communicative culture - a complex dynamic process, the effectiveness of which is determined by the training of future social workers in university education, based on a set of methodological approaches, which have a special role in revealing the content and nature of professional development, in understanding his personal capabilities, abilities and prospects for enriching his own professional experience. The formation of communicative culture of future social workers in the process of professional training in the system of university education is based on a set of methodological approaches, combining culturological-axiological, personality-oriented, competence, creative-activity, content-procedural approaches. The identified methodological approaches in our study are the basis for further development of conceptual provisions for the formation of communicative culture of the future social worker in the system of university education, components, criteria, etc. of this complex personal formation.