Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics share a set of common concerns, and how an analysis of these to produce a social scientific account of applied linguistics helps to explain the interaction between social structures, human agents and language. Foreword - Introduction - Making connections: some key issues in social theory and applied linguistics - Sociology and ideas about language - Language as a cultural emergent property - Researching...
Applied Linguistics as Social Science surveys the increasing dialogue between linguistics and social theory. The book shows how social theory, appl...
This volume explores the relationship between nature and society.
Highlights the significant part Sociology can play in both understanding and shaping how human societies respond to the threat of ecological catastrophe
Addresses a topic that is rapidly gaining interest within sociology and the wider political realm
The volume brings together an unusually broad range of contributors who offer a wide and fascinating scope of perspectives on this issue
This volume explores the relationship between nature and society.
Highlights the significant part Sociology can play in both understanding an...
Kaskaskia Parson Bains could not have imagined what was ahead of him when he boarded the Kaskaskia. He became a hero to many people because he simply did what he thought was right. He only wanted to serve his time in the Navy and get back to the real world and his true love Marci. But danger and intrigue seemed to surround him from the beginning. While trying to cope with one of the most dangerous jobs in the Navy, he had to confront stowaways, kidnapping, smuggling, a hurricane and murder. Marci was Mexican/American and drop dead beautiful. Her wealthy family in Texas was very powerful. She...
Kaskaskia Parson Bains could not have imagined what was ahead of him when he boarded the Kaskaskia. He became a hero to many people because he simply ...
This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; whether and under what circumstances animals are regarded as social actors with agency; media representations of human-animal relations; and the relation between animals and national identity.
This collection examines human-animal relations and the different ways in which they can be understood, exploring animal rights and animal welfare; wh...
Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detailed socialist analysis of this much discussed change in the class structure of contemporary capitalism.
Focusing on the class position of managerial and supervisory workers, Robert Carter takes as his starting-point the inadequacy of both orthodox Marxist and Weberian models of class relations. Rather, he concurs with recent structuralist theorists of class who maintain that there exists between capital and labour in the process of...
Non-manual workers are fast becoming the largest occupational category in Western capitalist countries. This is the first book to present a detaile...
