Digitalization as a Characteristic Feature of the Social System at the Present Stage of Development of Society and the State

The article explores the concept of “digitalization” and focuses on the chaotic study of the digital environment in the modern period. The author examines the concept of social system, taking into account the transition to an information society, and defines the concept of digitalization as the main feature of the social system. The features of the information society, the digital environment, new subjects of legal relations of electronic democracy, and the implementation of state information policy as signs of the social system caused by digitalization are highlighted.