This book can be recommended as a textbook for students of different specialties of Bachelor's and Master's degrees, who study the disciplines "Philosophy", "Introduction to Intellectual Philosophy", "Sociology and Political Science", "Psychology and Cultural Studies", "Globalization and Politics", "Modern History of Kazakhstan". The title of the textbook is connected with the fact that the author tried to expand the horizon of those social and humanitarian sciences, which are studied in technical universities. This is an aspiration to interest students, to show these disciplines in an unusual perspective, from an interesting side. The book is formed from the author's articles written in different years. It is divided into five chapters: History of Philosophy, Turkic Philosophy, Politics, Society, Ethnics and Religion. The peculiarity of these articles is also in the fact that along with some theoretical calculations they contain considerable empirical material on the topics. Thehistorical and philosophical material will be useful for students embarking on the study of philosophy. It is clear that their acquaintance with philosophy should not be limited to topics standard in many educational institutions. For this reason, for example, the collection includes the topic of attitudes to life in ancient Greek philosophy.