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Introduction. At the beginning of the XXI century, social processes are becoming more complex, diverse, interconnected, proceeding with acceleration. Some processes are moving towards development, others are destructive, and still others are uncertain. This creates special conditions for social transformations, in which not only scenarios for the development and harmonization of global society, but also a sharp increase in global problems with the subsequent degradation of society and the nature of the planet are possible. Understanding modern social events and transformations requires of humanitarian specialists broad socio-philosophical worldview, based not only on modern knowledge, but also on the rich experience of the philosophical culture of the past age about possible manifestations of order and chaos in people's lives. The purpose of the article is to make a certain contribution to the formation of the modern socio-philosophical worldview by studying the opposite world processes and paired categories that reflect them, starting with the fundamental ones - space and chaos. Methodology and research methods. Applied: dialectical methodology; systemic and synergistic approaches; methods: the relationship of historical and logical, axiological, comparative, analogies, as well as the integration of the results. Results. The deep knowledge of the essence of modern processes is impossible without the cultural-philosophical analysis of a similar experience of past. The study showed that notions of the life instability not only of people and society, but also of the world as a whole, developed starting with the oldest primitive and archaic cultures. These fundamental views have undergone their transformation in later years of the mankind development, up to the present. Therefore, the experience of knowing past social events, enclosed in culture and social philosophy, contains a number of important knowledge that can serve as a basis for developing ways to stabilize, streamline modern social life and prevent the most dangerous crisis phenomena in modern civilization. The pairs of categories have been investigated: space and chaos, order and chaos, formation and destruction. Different aspects of the relations of the cosmos (order) and chaos (in statics, dynamics, self-movement), as well as the forms of manifestation of order and chaos in the past and present are determined. Conclusion. The important aspects of the socio-philosophical understanding of the relations of the cosmos (order) and chaos (in statics, dynamics, self-movement), as well as the forms of manifestation of order and chaos, which took place not only in the past, but in modern life as well, have been identified.