Social challenges of the globalization and education in the conditions of modern world digitalization

Globalization and education are two distinct, multidimensional, interconnected and interdependent social phenomena.
It is impossible to imagine a social life without digital technologies. Development of the scientific question
regarding the specific features of the societal challenges caused by globalization and education in conditions of digitalization
(Big Data, Metadata, etc.) requires an appeal to methodological issues of educational sociology. Sociology
is the science concerned with the study of social phenomena. In this paper, the authors aimed to identify and analyze
the societal challenges of globalization and education in situation of digitalization and argue the importance of the
sociology of education as an effective conceptual tool, able to contribute to solving the problems caused by societal
challenges. The research methodology focused on the metasystemic investigation of the specific features of societal challenges, is based on updated data provided by Wordometers, prioritizing deadlocks and paradoxes of globalization
of education, and the dynamic description of empirical data.