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Digital nomads
People known as 'digital nomads' have become a globally significant sociological group over the past ten years or so, and this group continues to grow. Being a digital nomad is a way of life that will...
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Gender in Education
The great majority of teachers reading the question above will answer 'yes'. However, perhaps that is one of those grand assumptions that need serious, healthy questioning, and this is what Ann & Bill...
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The Hill We Climb
In January 2021, news reports all over the world of Joe Biden's inauguration as President of the United States will have included the image of a young black woman, Amanda Gorman, reading her poem in honour...
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Democracy, renewed
I don't know for certain whether the IB is in favour of democracy, but I would reckon that it is. There may be no explicit statement, but if according to the Learner Profile, we should aim to be Open-minded,...
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Democracy debated 2
The companion page Democracy debated 1 raised the issue of whether Democracy really is a Good Thing. This question is worth considering seriously, as a global issue, because right now, in the early 21C,...
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Democracy debated 1
I imagine that we all think that Democracy is a Good Thing. A large majority of countries around the world are officially 'democracies', even when they are fairly blatantly not and merely use fake democratic...
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UK Social class
This page looks at the way social class is defined and described in the United Kingdom. Ideas about social class are not merely of academic interest to sociologists; they have a powerful influence on...
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Tourist tribes
Studying the structure of society ... we know that society has organisation because we observe how it is structured - which essentially means identifying groups, and sub-groups, and sub-sub-groups, and...
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Pulling down statues
In June 2020, in Bristol, the statue of a 17C businessman called Edward Colston was pulled down and thrown into the river. Why? Because Colston had made most of his very large fortune from the slave trade....
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Imagined communities
The organisation of communities ... social groups don't actually exist, in any absolute sense - they exist and achieve importance to the extent that all the individuals involved agree that they exist....