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  2. Basil Bernstein - Wikipedia

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    The two types of language codes are the elaborated code and the restricted code. The restricted code is suitable for insiders who share assumptions and understanding on the topic, whereas the elaborated code does not assume that the listener shares these assumptions or understandings, and thus elaborated code is more explicit, more thorough, and does not require the listener to read between ...

  3. Sociolinguistics - Wikipedia

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    Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the interaction between society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context and language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.

  4. Style (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of language; Category; Linguistics portal; In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings. In this context ...

  5. Sociology of language - Wikipedia

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    Sociology of language is the study of the relations between language and society. [1] It is closely related to the field of sociolinguistics , [ 2 ] which focuses on the effect of society on language.

  6. History of sociology - Wikipedia

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    Sociology as a scholarly discipline emerged, primarily out of Enlightenment thought, as a positivist science of society shortly after the French Revolution.Its genesis owed to various key movements in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of knowledge, arising in reaction to such issues as modernity, capitalism, urbanization, rationalization, secularization, colonization and imperialism.

  7. Consequentialism - Wikipedia

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    In moral philosophy, consequentialism is a class of normative, teleological ethical theories that holds that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for judgement about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct. Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will ...

  8. Émile Durkheim - Wikipedia

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    David Émile Durkheim (/ ˈ d ɜːr k h aɪ m /; [1] French: [emil dyʁkɛm] or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist.Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber.

  9. Social norm - Wikipedia

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    Consequentialism: norms are created when an individual's behavior has consequences and externalities for other members of the group. Relationalism: norms are created because people want to attract positive social reactions. In other words, norms do not necessarily contribute to the collective good.