The youth : a troublesome sociological category

The youth is a sociological category which usually causes trouble for the adults due to young people’s contestation of the social order and value systems. Young people have always been among potential and actual revolutionaries. It can be concluded that the youth constitute some kind of threat to the existing state of society. Young people compete with adults, not only in the sphere of values, but also on the job market for the best posts and, as a consequence, for positions in the social structure. Since this is a kind of an emerging category, just entering an adult life, its position has been usually worse. Th us the youth additionally has to experience (oft en negative) consequences of social change and its impact for individual biographies of youngsters. The youth also causes trouble as an object of sociological study. Firstly, there are problems how to determine precisely the scope and content (meaning) of this concept. Secondly, youth research led usually to the conclusions that were quickly challenged by the social practice. Thirdly, there are various ideas how to determine its role in society. The purpose of this paper is to analyze these issues in the context of the social changes taking place in the modern globalized society

Distance education: an opportunity or a threat?

The period of the Covid-19 pandemic has raised the issue of remote learning in a very violent way. This is treated as a forced necessity that, in the opinion of teachers, parents, and experts appearing in the media, brings more harm than good. Many examples are cited to confirm this thesis. The rupture of the direct student and teacher, the student and the student, the parent's teacher, is emphasized. There is a lot of talk about the psychosocial effects of contacts mediated by instant messaging. The reduction in the quality of teaching, difficulties with assimilating the necessary material with students are emphasized. Attention is drawn to the need to engage in the educational process to a greater extent than parents is currently. The question arises whether in the era of the media society (media civilization) or even the digital society, the use of modern means of communication provided by Levinson's new new media, distance learning is a threat to the course and quality of the education process? Or is it an opportunity for modern schools that can be used to change the way they see and, more importantly, practice education? An attempt to answer this question will be the subject of my text. Another area is the challenges that distance learning generates for school didactics. This also forces a new way of thinking about education and changes in didactic practice. The article will be a catalogue of problems generated by the new technological environment for education, rather than a presentation of verification of more or less detailed hypotheses