What is society? How does it function and develop? When and how did it come about? What are the features of his knowledge? Are there patterns in human history? Is the role of chance great in it? What place in the history of society is occupied by its economic and spiritual life, the interaction of various national structures? Is there social progress? Is the discussion of this kind of issues from the standpoint of modern science combined in the book with an analysis of the ideas and concepts of prominent thinkers of the past? Konta, Morgan, Rickert, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Weber, Sorokin, Dilthey, Durkheim, Parsons, Aron, Toynbee.