The collective monograph is devoted to the analysis of disciplinary issues, which in the 21st century . It is again actively attracting the attention of researchers .. The book covers the issues of continuity in the humanities and social disciplines, the redistribution of fundamental and applied spheres in these areas, the exchange of ideas and conceptual models between different scientific communities. The authors of the study are scientists from Russia, France, United States, Sweden and other countries - comprehensively reveal the problems of history and sociology of socio-humanitarian knowledge Turning to the little-studied issues of the academic hierarchy and the mechanisms of displacement of "minority" directions , explicit and shadowy practices of securing the priority of certain disciplines and schools . The publication is addressed to a wide range of researchers - historians, sociologists, philosophers, culturologists, specialists in science, history of science and history of ideas, as well as teachers of higher educational institutions and students of humanities .