A new scientific direction in the study of social and cultural activities

In article the characteristic of the two-volume book of V.M. Ryabkov, devoted to biographics as to the new scientific direction in studying of welfare activity in Russia is given. The biographics is presented by the author as one of the directions of anthropological approach in studying of perception and experiences by the person of surrounding reality, including to leisure activity. The basic teoretiko-methodological provisions of biographics developed by V.M. Ryabkov are presented in article.