The topic of the article is the methodology choice of the priorities in the social consciousness. The author offers her three-level conception of the structure of the social consciousness. The specific choice of methods has to be in full agreement with the task of the research; the study of each level of the social consciousness corresponds with the definite set of the methods. A wrong choice of the research methods leads to a distortion of notion about the social consciousness state and priorities and may give grounds to false political conclusions.
