The complexity and ambiguity of contemporary social processes raises the question of a new level of social knowledge. This involves the generation of a new generation of textbooks in social philosophy. Keeping all the rational inherent in the formation approach to the socio-philosophical analysis of society, the author (winner of the textbooks of the new generation on the humanities) simultaneously applies and civilizational approach, which allows non-traditional highlight many of social development issues (the place and the role of technological mode of production, destination and functions of the state, the specificity of the various forms of social consciousness, and so on. d.).