Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director, Institute of Sociology, RAS, Mikhail Konstantinovich Gorshkov, is answering questions being asked by Administrator, Center of PR and mass media relations, doctor of sciences, philosophy, professor Sergey Nikolayevich Komissarov, on the occasion of the first issue having been published of the Sociological Science and Social Practice journal. Under discussion in the course of the interview are the general conception, the intellectual resources and the program of the new edition and, besides, materials of the first issue are announced.