The textbook completes the author's line in social studies for grades 5-9. Contains the necessary factual and theoretical material on the basics of economics, politics, state and law. The methodological apparatus for each paragraph includes a variety of multi-level questions and tasks for collective and independent work, fragments from documents, scientific and popular science literature for analysis and discussion, lesson vocabulary, topics for project activities, abstracts, discussions. The textbook is equipped with diagrams, tables and figures. The textbook is written in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard for Basic General Education, approved by the Russian Academy of Education and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and included in the Federal List.