About Dr Karl Maton
Karl’s interests are focused on questions of knowledge, education and society, including all aspects of higher education, the knowledge society, disciplinary knowledge, schooling, educational technology, epistemology, and intellectual history.
Sociology of knowledge and sociology of education.
Karl has published extensively in sociology, cultural studies, education, linguistics and philosophy. He is the principal author of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), which integrates insights from Pierre Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein and critical realist philosophy. LCT is now being widely used by PhD students and scholars in Australia, China, France, South Africa, Ireland and elsewhere for studies in sociology, education, linguistics and philosophy. Karl recently co-edited Social Realism, Knowledge and the Sociology of Education: Coalitions of the mind (2010, Continuum) and Disciplinarity: Systemic functional and sociological