Department of Philosophy conducts multifaceted research work on the problems of social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of education, philosophy of science and epistemology, philosophy of Islam, Turkish and Kazakh philosophy. Types and forms of research activities are diverse:

• Development of theoretical and practical problems of modern social philosophy and methodology of social and humanitarian knowledge.

• Review and discussion of theses, monographs, textbooks and manuals, state programs.

Main lines of research of the department of general and ethnic pedagogy:

1) Formation and development of the theory and structure of the content of professional teacher education.

2) Designing social and educational systems.

3) Problems of education in higher education.

4) Psychological and pedagogical foundations of modern educational technologies.

5) Interaction of subjects of higher education.

6) The content of scientific and pedagogical training of university teachers.

Main directions of scientific activity of the department of sociology and social work :

• Values ​​and life strategies of youth

• Globalization, urbanization, modernization of social systems;

• Gender equality in Kazakhstan;

• Social partnership of government, non-governmental and civil society institutions;

• Modeling, forecasting, planning and management of social processes;

• Researching, processing, analysis and evaluation of social information social structure and social stratification;

• Social adaptation in social work and method of regulation

• Institute of social work in the age of globalization

• Questions of legal support in social work

• The use of innovative technologies in social work

• Social policy RK in crisis.

• Strategy for anti-crisis program providing health care to the poor and the evaluation of its effectiveness.

• Social technology and social engineering

Main directions of scientific activity of the department of religious studies and cultural studies are:

• Freedom of conscience, religion and law, church-state relations;

• Contemporary issues and major trends in interfaith relations;

• Religious and philosophical traditions of the East;

• Features and content analysis study of religion as a social and cultural phenomenon;

• Study of cognitive and discursive practices in religious studies, religious philosophy and theology;

• Analysis of various religious groups, social groups of different faiths;

• Theoretical and methodological problems of cultural;

• Historical and philosophical studies Eastern, Islamic and Western philosophy;

• Cultural philosophical research problems axiology;

• Methodological problems in the history and philosophy of culture;

• cultural anthropologic andetnocutural research;

• cultural studies the problem of culture media , etc.

The basic directions of research work of department of the general and ethnic psychology are presented on following positions:

• Ethnopsychology of intelligence and creativity;

• Provision of psychological safety of the educational environment of high school;

• Assessment and probabilistic forecasting psychological effects of crises and social conflicts;

• Psychology meaningful work: counseling and diagnostics;

• Psychology of understanding and emotional intelligence in organizations;

• Family psychology and psychology of gender;

• Psychology of teaching and business communication:

• Political, ethnic and cross-cultural psychology.

The Department of Political Science carries out off multiplane research work on contemporary issues of a modern political science:

• study of contemporary political processes and democratization of Kazakh society;

• study of the processes of modernization of the political system of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

• study of modern political technologies and political management;

• Study the political problems of international relations and global development;

• study of the problems of international and regional security;

• Development of image analysis of RK.