History of the study of social and interethnic attitudes in domestic science
Western social psychologists and sociologists are the first who began using the concept «attitude». Over the time this concept was included into the Soviet scientific discourse. It became frequently used. In this article we try to analyze the experience of studying attitudes in Soviet science from Soviet times till our time. We consider different approaches to understanding of social and interethnic attitudes and their correlation. Relevant definitions of social, ethnic and interethnic attitudes are given.