Rabota predstavlyaet soboy pervuyu v istorii otechestvennoy nauki popytku postroeniya sotsiokul'turnoy modeli mezhdistsiplinarnosti, obrazuyushchey tsentral'nuyu zonu vsekh sotsial'no-gumanitarnykh nauk. Avtory podrobno rassmatrivayut printsipy nauchnoy ratsional'nosti v etoy sfere i vozmozhnosti prilozheniya nauchnogo znaniya k resheniyu prakticheskikh zadach razvitiya obshchestva, v tom chisle v sfere mezhdunarodnykh otnosheniy, a takzhe svyazannuyu s metodologiey mezhdistsiplinarnosti problematiku vzaimodeystviya teoriy i distsiplin sotsial'no-gumanitarnoy sfery i otkryvayushchiesya perspektivy vzaimodeystviya nauki i sistemy obrazovaniya. Rabota predstavlyaet interes dlya studentov, izuchayushchikh distsipliny sotsial'no-gumanitarnoy sfery, prepodavateley, spetsialistov-antropologov, kul'turologov, yuristov, mezhdunarodnikov, ekonomistov, sotsiologov, a takzhe vsekh interesuyushchikhsya aktual'noy teoreticheskoy problematikoy sotsial'no-gumanitarnykh distsiplin, a glavnoe vozmozhnostyami prakticheskogo vozdeystviya nauk ob obshchestve na samo obshchestvo.