Keyword: future

Three scenarios for the future – lessons from the sociology of knowledge

Dr Johan Muller, Professor Michael Young

This review draws on social realist approaches in the sociology of knowledge and, in light of them, constructs three scenarios for the future of education in the next... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: Sociology, education, future, society, social change

Virtual disruptions: traditional and new media’s challenges to heteronormativity in education

Aubry D Threlkeld

Schools generally reinforce heteronormative discourses to the degree that queer representations surface primarily through traditional mass media, and new cybermedia sources. In order to inspect possible future... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: sexuality, education, future, media, society, gender, networking, virtual worlds

Popular representations of the working class: contested identities and social change

David Weltman

This review critically explores media representations of working class people and working class lives. Drawing on various studies, as well as other examples from different forms of media,... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: class, media, technology, identity, ethnicity, education, future