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In the article, a topical problem of humanitarian education and philosophy of education, connected with the in-depth research of the transition periods in the society evolution and modern social reality, is considered. It is substantiated that in the social evolution there take place: 1) the inter-stage transitivity or transition periods (with the qualitative transformation of evolutionary stages) and 2) the inside-the-stage transitivity, inside of a single evolutionary stage, where multiple social changes occur within the limits of one quality. Transition periods in the sociocultural evolution of knowledge, including in the sphere of education, are described; the topicality of the philosophical approach to the problem is substantiated.