Toby Marshall
July 2008
Decode first, understand later
Traditionalists impose authority openly and honestly, by directly attempting to transmit culture. ‘Progressives’, Burkard points out, also attempt to mould the child, but do so through indirect and covert means.
• Books
April 2008
Making the Case for Knowledge
There is a great deal to commend Young’s work. It makes a strong case for the power of formal knowledge and the role of sociology in understanding the conditions that enable its development. Young persuasively demonstrates that schooling plays a unique role in initiating pupils into the intellectual traditions that enable them to think for themselves.
• Books
October 2005
Everything Bad is Good for You - How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter
Johnson eschews questions of meaning and content, focusing instead on the ‘cognitive complexity’ of popular culture, as well as the wider determinates of this complexity.
