A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using “new media” like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with “old” media like TV, print and music. Instead, because of the amount of time they spend using more than [...]

The Old Testament, the ancient Greeks, philosophers, poets, historians and sociologists through the centuries have described life in terms of the ebb and flow of generations.   It has been called the most important conception in history. 
 
Based on the results from the 2006 National Church Life Survey (NCLS), this paper provides a brief introduction to [...]

Last year the Canberra Youth Coalition developed a number of resources and information sheets on various drugs, the magazines were a part of their drug and alcohol project titled FRANK. Each paper focused on a specific drug or theme and asked questions about health, wellbeing, the effects of the drug, legalities, mental health… These papers [...]

Almost without realising it Generation Y have adjusted fully to the globalised world. In that way they are dramatically different from their parents, and represent a point of change in Australian social and economic history. This is the conclusion prominent pollsters and social researchers, Irving Saulwick and Dennis Muller, have reached in their latest report, [...]

The last three decades have seen a rapid increase in the proportion of people holding university degrees. University qualifications are a gateway for people entering professions and are therefore an integral part of the career paths of many workers. According to the Census, around 13% of Australian adults hold a bachelor degree or have a [...]