The collective monograph is devoted to the analysis of the problems of discipline, which in the XXI century. again actively attracts the attention of researchers. The book re-highlights 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 - scientists from Russia, France, the USA, Sweden and other countries - comprehensively disclose the problems of the history and sociology of socio-humanitarian knowledge, referring to previously poorly studied issues of academic hierarchy and mechanisms for displacing "minority" areas, explicit and shadow practices of consolidating the priority of certain disciplines and schools.