The manual is an integral part of the educational and methodological complex "Professional intercultural communication" , developed in accordance with the requirements (federal component) to the mandatory minimum content and level of training of a graduate specialist (bachelor , Master's degree) in the cycle of "General Humanities and Socio-Economic Disciplines" of the state educational standards of higher professional education of the second generation and aims: introduce students to the categorical apparatus of modern sociology and social economy on the basis of English-language texts ; to study the English-language terminological system of economic sociology ; to develop the skills and abilities of intercultural (foreign) communication in the framework of business contacts and the professional sphere (social economy)