Abstract

Digital transformation has become one of the most influential forces shaping contemporary society affecting patterns of communication work education governance consumption social relationships and individual identity. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence social media digital platforms mobile technologies digital public infrastructure and data-driven systems has created new opportunities for social participation while simultaneously generating new forms of inequality surveillance exclusion and cultural transformation. This paper examines digital transformation from a sociological perspective by exploring the relationship between technology identity social interaction inequality and social change. The study adopts a qualitative research design based on secondary sources including recent academic literature international reports institutional publications and evidence concerning digital development in India. The analysis demonstrates that digital technologies do not simply opera