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L'ordre improbable : entropie et processus sociaux
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ISBN: 2130421016 9782130421016 Year: 1989 Volume: vol *28 Publisher: Paris: PUF,

Language planning and social change
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ISBN: 0521333598 0521336414 0511620810 9780521333597 9780521336413 9780511620812 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization. Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, feminist campaigns to eliminate sexist bias in language, adult literacy campaigns, the plain language movement, efforts to distinguish American from British spelling, the American bilingual education movement, the creation of writing systems for unwritten languages, and campaigns to rid languages of foreign terms. Language Planning and Social Change is the first book to define the field of language planning and relate it to other aspects of social planning and to social change. The book is accessible and presupposes no special background in linguistics, sociology or political science. It will appeal to applied linguists and to those sociologists, economists and political scientists with an interest in language.

Family obligations and social change
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ISBN: 0745603238 0745603246 9780745603230 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,


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Out of time : history and evolution in anthropological discourse
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ISBN: 0521366674 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

Scarcity and modernity
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ISBN: 0415015162 041504376X 9780415015165 9780415043762 Year: 1989 Publisher: London: Routledge,

The cement of society : a study of social order
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ISBN: 0521376076 0521374561 0511624999 9780521374569 9780521376075 9780511624995 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behaviour, and co-operative behaviour. The book examines various aspects of collective action and bargaining from the perspective of rational-choice theory and the theory of social norms. It is a fundamental assumption of the book that social norms provide an important kind of motivation for action that is irreducible to rationality. The book represents a major statement by Elster, which will be of particular interest to political scientists, political philosophers, sociologists, and economists.

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