1st Edition

Social Class Language and Education

By Denis Lawton Copyright 1968
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    I Social Class and Educational Opportunity: the demographic evidence 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. and Great Britain VIII Conclusion

    Biography

    Denis Lawton