El conflicto entre la democratización del conocimiento y la globalización de la ignorancia en el capitalismo informacional. Informar, comunicar, conocer

This paper assumes that sociology of education supposes a privileged frame of research and theoretical reflection taking account the new questions opened by the informational capitalism nowadays. Their central statements, from the critical sociology, sustain that to understand the new forms of inequality that the current stage of neoliberal globalization brings up; and to explain the concrete conflict between the democratisation of the knowledge and the globalization of the cultural and educational inequalities, it is necessary to analyse (as new sources of inequality that makes powerful and they already reinforce those existent), the difficulties in the access to the information as well as the asymmetries in the communication exchange, and also in last term, the paper that could play the social uses of the scientific knowledge and the techno-science in the current informational capitalism.