About Significant Fault of Education Standards of Higher School in the Field of Social Studies

The paper is devoted to the problem of educational modernization in Russia. Today, education in the higher school is a social institution, which formed a large part of the task that confronts the 21st century in Russia. It is about modernization and innovation. The author discusses how the school is responding to this call, in particular, what “ideology” professed reformers face the imperative of higher education modernization innivation orientation of contemporary society. There is the unpleasant fact that focus on a new type of knowledge (“technoznanie”) begins to dominate. The article argues the use in educational programs of Russian universities such basic concepts as “civilization/civility” with a high social value.