The manual is compiled in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education, the curriculum and the discipline program . Contains a course of lectures, which includes materials reflecting the content, scientific and methodological foundations, forms of teaching social sciences disciplines, issues of their ideological orientation ; problems of development of social science disciplines, modern interactive and innovative methods of teaching social science disciplines are considered . Intended for students of the training direction 39. 03. 01 Sociology, as well as for all those who are interested in methods of teaching social science disciplines .