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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959836603321

Autore

Lawton Denis

Titolo

Social class, language and education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge & K. Paul, 1968

ISBN

1-134-68512-2

1-134-68513-0

1-280-56671-X

9786610566716

0-203-00129-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology. Race, class and social structure ; ; v. 15

Disciplina

306.43

371.9

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Children - Language

Educational sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 162-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES; I Social Class and Educational Opportunity; II Motivation, Sub-culture and Educability; III Empirical Evidence on the Relation between Language and Social Background; IV Language and Thought; V A Critique of Bernstein's Work on Language and Social Class; VI An Experimental Study of the Speech and Writing of some Middle- and Working-class Boys; VII Some Proposed Intervention Programmes in the U.S.A. in Great Britain; VIII Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Titles in the Class, Race and Social Structure set of the International Library of Sociology consider every problem of socio-political importance that affected society in the years following the Second World War.