Methodology of scientific research

The textbook discusses the main ways of cognition, research of phenomena, processes occurring in various system formations, organizations of the surrounding reality. The article analyzes the content of the category "method" in its broadest essence, understood as a system of regulatory principles of cognition, transformation and management, from ways of fixing individual observed phenomena to translating and transforming them into scientific facts and further into patterns, structures and models reflecting reality. The processes reflecting the formation, formation of a scientific idea and its subsequent transformation into a product, scientific theory, technology, program, mechanism are described. Organizational and managerial technologies of scientific research are presented. The training material is presented in the paradigm of the methodology of the system approach. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students, postgraduates, teachers of social and cultural services.