This article analyzes the new phenomena of inequality and exclusion resulting from the intensive use of knowledge and information in the organization of work, on one hand, and in political and cultural institutions, on the other. Based on this analysis, some consequences for education are presented, particularly those regarding its role in relation to social mobility, the risks of privatizing the circuits in which socially significant knowledge is reproduced and distributed, as well as to changes in schools' work from the point of view of the socialization process.
SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGE; WORK; EDUCATION