El discurso de la Unión Europea sobre la sociedad del conocimiento

Abstract

The discourse on the knowledge and information society has been integrated and popularised
by European institutions and vinculated to the European social project. This discourse implies,
among other things, a redefinition of social cohesion, that is characterised by a crisis context.
This crisis is extended on three axis: a labour market regulation, an unemployment and a
citizenship crises. The new social contract that the European Union institutions propose is
articulated around these three axes: faced with the crisis of the market regulation, the discourse
of work flexibility; faced with the crisis of unemployment, the discourse of employability and
faced with the model of social intervention based on citizen’s rights, the discourse of activation
and personal responsibility.