Abstract:
The article is devoted to student preferences in social and humanitarian issues, presented in the educational activity in the classroom. The author examines the content of students reports at seminars on human science disciplines. As a result of the analysis of empirical material, the main groups of topics in the field of social science that are important for young students have been identified. An attempt is made to typify these interests. It has been established that the priority area is existential questions about the essence of man, his place in the world, the meaning of life, death and the idea of immortality. Some new, recent trends in thematic blocks that are subjectively and emotionally relevant for students are characterized. It is shown that in a complex rapidly changing reality, the actual task of growing up is the need for social and personal identity.