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This article deals with the implementation possibilities and prospects of the activity approach in social philosophy in the context of post-non-classical type of scientific rationality. It actualizes the axiological perspective. The categories of «sociality», «activity», «subject activity», «collective activity» are analyzed from this position; their content reveals the idea of developing all forms of public life and the person through active human nature as its generic essence. The author analyzes the ideas of modern social philosophy in the context of the interpretation of «sociality» as a poly-subject activity and mental activity approach, where the key to the use of the definition of «activity» is in the axiological perspective of goal-setting, realization and achievement activity. It is concluded that the problem of the activity-related relativity is connected with resolving the issues of personal identity and its anthropological authenticity as the rootedness of the person in the system of values of his/her nation. In the Russian context it can be productively resolved by incorporation of the ideas of Russian religious philosophy in the modern scientific knowledge. It is summarized that the activity approach currently aspires to become one of the leading explanatory principles in analysis, description, design and forecasting of social processes and social structures in postclassical rationality. It gives the opportunity to explore the social reality in accordance with axiological attitudes of a particular society. The implementation of the activity approach not only enriches the research base of social philosophy, allows realizing its recommendation and prognostic functions, but also provides an opportunity to design, to create social reality that is seen as extremely important in the conditions of globalization and transformation of values.