The Student’s View

Contrasting the Social Construction of Language

Jun 20th, 2010 | By Matthew

Durkheim would agree with me that the function of language is essential to socialization, but how exactly is language developed? A follower of Marx would say that a common language between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie would emerge (in order for the two classes to communicate) but the upper class would develop and use a
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Welcome fellow sociologists!

May 13th, 2010 | By Matthew

My name is Matthew Nykolichuk and I am a second year International Business student minoring in Sociology at the University of Calgary. I am here to write about and provide a fresh view of sociology from a university student’s perspective. I first was exposed to sociology while taking it as an option in my first
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