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заочное участие. Сайт конференции: http://www.sgemsocial.org The report considers the role of expert activity in modern society. It shows that the expert activity becomes significant form of social activity, and in this context the process of its institutionalization, that is gathering pace now and involving the formation of normative, institutional and professional forms of its implementation is studied in detail. This process is very similar to the process of institutionalization of scientific activity, which had a place at the end of the 19th century. Keywords: expert activity institutionalization, expertology, think thanks, organizational knowledge, consulting, scientific activity.