Outline of a Theory of Practice.
About: This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 14683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practice theory.
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TL;DR: The evidence for Bourdieu's social reproduction theory and its contributions to understanding educational inequality has been relatively mixed as discussed by the authors. And some critics discount the usefulness of core concepts such as...
Abstract: Evidence for Bourdieu’s social reproduction theory and its contributions to understanding educational inequality has been relatively mixed. Critics discount the usefulness of core concepts such as ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the provision of popular culture for university students in Bristol city centre and suggest that the provision is aimed at a cohort of "traditional" adolescent, middle-and upper-class students based at the University of Bristol.
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TL;DR: The authors found that respondents with low levels of education will be more likely than other respondents to have group-based musical dislikes and found that less educated Americans pattern their musical taste more around race, ethnicity, religious conservatism, and geographic region.
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TL;DR: The authors examines ways in which contemporary American writers for whom English is a second language position and reposition themselves with regard to their multiple languages and identities in autobiographic narratives and demonstrates that five main aspects of identity may be subject to renegotiation in the process of second language socialization: linguistic, racial and ethnic, cultural, gender, and social identities.
Abstract: The present paper focuses on an unusual linguistic minority — contemporary American writers for whom English is a second language. The study examines ways in which these writers position and reposition themselves with regard to their multiple languages and identities in autobiographic narratives. The analysis of the narratives demonstrates that five main aspects of identity may be subject to renegotiation in the process of second language socialization: linguistic, racial and ethnic, cultural, gender, and social identities. It is argued that written — and, in particular, published — texts represent ideal discursive spaces for negotiation of identities, spaces where accents may be erased and the writers’ voices imbued with authority . Furthermore, it is argued that the importance of cross-cultural autobiographies by bilingual writers is not simply in ways in which this writing allows the authors to reinvent themselves but rather in ways in which it allows second language (L2) users to assume legitimate ownership of their L2 and to provide the readers with new meanings, perspectives, and images of “ being American— and bilingual” in the postmodern world.
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