The Round Table “Social Studies of Humor and Laughter: Main Directions, Perspectives, Terminology and Methodology” was held in St. Petersburg on May 26, 2017 in the framework of the Fourth International Gelological Congress “Social Nature of Laughter”. It was organized by The Research Center for Cultural Exclusion and Frontier Zones, Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RCCEFZ SI RAS) and the Institute of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University.