The urgency of the topic is due to the fact that today the importance of socially responsible state as a factor in overcoming instability and crisis in COVID-19, which requires reformatting the principles of public administration, survival of organizations and their adaptation to changes in uncertainty in the environment and needs constant modernization. To form the concept of a socially responsible state in COVID-19, it is necessary to overcome the conditions of crisis and instability, to create conditions for sustainable development, reset the management of public administration, to form new survival values of organizations at risk. The purpose of the study: theoretical and practical aspects of the concept the formation of socially responsible state as a factor in overcoming instability and crisis in COVID-19. Objectives of the study: 1. To study the formation of the concept of socially responsible state as a factor in overcoming instability and crisis in COVID-19. 2. To analyze the methodology of research of the socially responsible state as a factor of overcoming instability and crisis in the conditions of COVID-19. 3. To identify complexity as a sign of unstable and unbalanced public administration. 4. To identify the increasing complexity of organizations in modern conditions and the need for self-adaptation and self-regulation of systems. Research methodology. AGILE methodology acts as a system of new values, which extends to many areas of activity, including public administration and administration. Methods of synergetic analysis, including the theory of self-organizing open systems, which find themselves in points of imbalance, uncertainty, bifurcation (bifurcation), stochastic information (lack of information), system drift, resulting in a change of priorities. The result of the study. It is concluded that the state should realize and be responsible for its influence on society, promote socially responsible attitude to all processes taking place in society, for which to rebuild consciousness, principles and methods of activity that would be focused on obtaining social, economic and environmental effects that do not harm society and the environment.