The objective of this article is to conduct a preliminary study of the ways in which some of the literature pertaining to the social sciences addresses, at a conceptual and methodological level, certain conditions of subjectification related to current changes in the world of work from the perspective of an analysis of governmentality focusing on in the effects on subjectivity that this implies. The research consisted of a content analysis of articles found on the abstract and citation data base Scopus. This analysis demonstrated that a trend exists that posits that subjectivities are produced by forms of governmentality. This in turn opens up a discussion of determinate subjectivities or emergent subjectivities, which is to say of taking into consideration which forms of governmentality foster or provide conditions of subjectification from which certain subjectivities emerge.