Digitilized Education As a Key Factor for Changing and Formatting Social Contract

Since social contract is based on the idea of social group agreeing to abide by the rules of the government for safety, defence and stability, in order for this agreement to be efficient so that the government were able to defend the citizens and meet their requests as well as the society were able to find the compromise and realize the ability of the government to fulfil the society’s needs there has to be an understanding of several levels of such interaction.

We believe that one of the key elements of efficiently working social contract is education since as an institute it performs several essential functions. However, there has to be an understanding that education is a system that always changes due to external factors, such as the pandemic of 2019, politics of the government, and internal factors like the progress of science.

In the new era of technology and Internet digitalization has become a new power that affects all areas of our life and different institutions. Education as it comes has also become much more digitalized in the past decade which has led to several consequences and the process of global digitalization has brought not only a new format of education but also the ability for the students to reach almost every existing knowledge.

In our paper we would like to research the extent to which education has an effect on changing and formatting social contract using the example of Russia. We will base our research on several theories: social contract, information society, digital culture, theory of generations and digital inequality.