Abstract

The article includes the description of factors, which determinated the formation of modern social and human sciences, as well as their applied sections. During the history, as many concrete cases illustrate, social and humanitarian knowledge has been always guided by the needs of practice. In the late 19th and early 20th century the practical interest to the improvement of humans and society has resulted in the conceptions of social technology and social engineering, the demand for which grows in contemporary technoscience and technoculture.