Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination

by Jan Blommaert

Book Overview

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 mile Durkheim's concept of the 'social fact' (social behaviours that we all undertake under the influence of the society we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350055182
• ISBN13: 9781350055186
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"