Class, Codes and Control: Applied Studies Towards a Sociology of Language (Volume 2)

Bernstein, B. (ed)

ISBN 10: 0710073968 / ISBN 13: 9780710073969

Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973

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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0710073968. Seller Inventory # 9072505

Bibliographic Details

Title: Class, Codes and Control: Applied Studies ...

Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Basil Bernstein rarely had a good press in the forty-odd years in which he presented his developing theories to the public. Early admiration for his sociolinguistic 'discoveries' - of codes which regulate, at a deep-structural level, family beliefs and behaviours and relationships, as well as surface utterances - turned quite quickly into a suspicion that his description of social class difference amounted to a declaration of working class deficit. Although Bernstein's writings, particularly in the 1990s, became opaque to the point of seeming to be purposefully obscurantist, they have always been enlivened by clear, pithy and punchy statements which left no room for ambiguity about the case he was making. The struggle to achieve an education system which would offer genuinely equal opportunities to children from all class and cultural backgrounds continued to underpin the writing and teaching of his later years.

Review:

"This collection demonstrates the magnitude of Bernstein's pioneering contribution to socio-linguistic studies" - S. John Eggleston, Times Educational Supplement