The article dwells upon the factors that determine the prospects and scenarios of world and domestic sociology development. They are characterized by the crisis and the trend split of the sociological community, turns in the development of sociology, the ratio of researchers to the classical heritage and the modern sociological theories and practices, and the relationship of sociology and power. Much attention is drawn to integrative trends of sociology, its commitment to the interaction with the scientific and socio-humanitarian knowledge. The phenomenon of sociological provincialism as the trend of sociology development is examined.