SOCIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY

The article shows that digitalization has changed every sphere of human life and reformed the social order in society, but at the same time, this process has contradictory consequences digital inequality, an increase in the share of a new social class of the precariat, deprived of most social guarantees within the traditional institutional structure of state social policy. The purpose of the article is to comprehensively study the role of social policy in the process of digital transformation of society in Western countries and to identify, on this basis, the general and specific patterns of formation and implementation of social policy, changes in the political approaches of the state to the development of the social sphere, including in the context of globalization processes.