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Author: Patricia Andrew
Publisher: Second Language Acquisition
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781847696144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book broaches the question of the social impact of age on language learners from a social constructionist perspective, thus filling a gap currently existing in the literature on age and second language acquisition.
Author: Patricia Andrew
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2012-01-11
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1847696163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities as language learners. By approaching the topic from a social constructionist perspective and in light of recent work in sociolinguistics and cultural studies, it broadens the current second language acquisition focus on age as a fixed biological or chronological variable to encompass its social dimensions. What emerges is a more complex and nuanced understanding of age as it intersects with language learning in a way that links it fundamentally to other social phenomena, such as gender, ethnicity and social class.
Author: Peter L. Berger
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-04-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1453215468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author: Leslie A. Morgan
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2011-03-15
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0826119379
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Author: Karen Sternheimer
Publisher:
Published: 2020-04-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780393419481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.
Author: Malcolm L. Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 784
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Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999-05-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780674812000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.
Author: Toni M. Calasanti
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780759101869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along the lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women, and their treatment in the policy arena.
Author: Pamela H. Gravagne
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-04-26
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1476603413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Becoming of Age is an examination of the ways that aging and old age are represented in popular film. Arguing that the ideas behind cinematic depictions of aging are historical and open to revision, the author looks at how movies both promote negative portrayals of aging and challenge its persistent cultural devaluation. Movies are a site of struggle where the representation and the reality of aging intertwine, and they have the power not only to reflect but to reconstruct our understanding.
Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1999-12-06
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780803983779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn An Invitation to Social Construction, Kenneth Gergen charts the background to the social constructionist movement and outlines the major debates, topics and issues.
