The article discusses the issue of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the choice of methods and forms of educational activities and socialization of young people in the current difficult situation of society development, the issue of the peculiarities of the formation in these conditions of a new type of culture - digital culture and the need to develop new scientifically based approaches to modernizing the education system in accordance with the risks and challenges of our time, as well as the implementation of communication practices in the context of the requirements of the epidemiological situation in the world. When carrying out the research, the following scientific methods of cognition were used: the method of comparative analysis, which made it possible to identify the advantages and disadvantages of the distant form of education in the context of the coronavirus pandemic; the method of quantitative analysis, allowed the authors of the article to better orient themselves in the general pile of facts, as well as to model the existing social processes in the field of education and society as a whole during the coronavirus pandemic; the use of the systemic method in the study of the subject of research made it possible to single out the determining factors influencing the reproduction of social experience in order to streamline and stabilize the spiritual and moral foundations, communication processes as the most important condition for the socialization of the individual; the formal legal method was used in the study of various legal documents; content analysis was used to study a set of statements on a specific topic.