Socio-cultural Transformations in the Era of Digitalisation

Abstract

The article analyses the socio-cultural transformations taking place in the digitalisation era, affecting primarily the value paradigms of society, which include the traditions themselves and the social institutions that form and support them. The author noted that digitalisation, radically changing the traditional society, forms new value guidelines. Further, the author revealed that stability, resilience, confidence in the future are replaced by instability, reactivity, and mobility. It forms two main trends: detraditionalisation and fundamentalism. The author revealed that the global cosmopolitan society generates glocalisation as a form of protest, based on the idea of decentralisation and preservation of local cultures. Also, the author noted that there is the process of eliminating the traditional institution of the family and the creation of its new forms. An analysis of self-identification processes in the era of digitalisation leads to the conclusion about the formation of multiple identities — a worldwide community of digital trans-individuals. The author concluded that a stable state of insecurity, insecurity, a constant change of points of view and social roles gives rise to multiculturalism and hybridity of identity. The author also concluded that socio-cultural transformations in the era of digitalisation fundamentally reformat the main areas of society’s life, forming new life values.