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Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination (Criminal Practice Series) by Blommaert, Jan;Durkheim, Émile is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Sociolinguistic evidence is an undervalued resource for social theory. In this book, Jan Blommaert uses contemporary sociolinguistic insights to develop a new sociological imagination, exploring how we construct and operate in online spaces, and what the implications of this are for offline social practice. Taking Émile Durkheim's concept of the 'social fact' (social behaviours that we all undertake under the influence of the society we live in) as the point of departure, he first demonstrates how the facts of language and social interaction can be used as conclusive refutations of individualistic theories of society such as 'Rational Choice'. Next, he engages with theorizing the post-Durkheimian social world in which we currently live. This new social world operates 'offline' as well as 'online' and is characterized by 'vernacular globalization', Arjun Appadurai's term to summarise the ways that larger processes of modernity are locally performed through new electronic media. Blommaert extrapolates from this rich concept to consider how our communication p

Who reads Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination (Criminal Practice Series)?

Author

Blommaert, Jan;Durkheim, Émile

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350055216

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Sociology, Literary Fiction