Abstract (English):
The textbook deals with the main problems of history, philosophy and methodology of social sciences and humanities. Special emphasis is placed on such issues as the subject of social humanities, methods of social humanities, the picture of the world in social humanities, social pseudoscience, ideology and social humanities, ethics of a social scientist, social ontology, social epistemology, etc. The purpose of the textbook is to introduce students to the methods of research in the subject areas of social and humanitarian sciences and teach them the skills to conduct independent scientific research in accordance with the criteria and requirements set by the modern logic of the development of social and humanitarian knowledge. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. It is intended for bachelors, undergraduates and postgraduates studying philosophy of science, as well as other disciplines related to philosophical and methodological problems of social and humanitarian knowledge.