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Book: Language, Society and Consciousness

Chapter: 1 Basil Bernstein: an exceptional 1924–2000

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.25623

Blurb:

Bernstein possessed a fearless imagination, which for the best part of half a century he devoted, with great originality, to the exploration of a question which has sometimes been described as the fundamental theoretical question of classical sociology: ‘how does the outside become the inside and how does the inside reveal itself and shape the outside?’

Chapter Contributors

  • Ruqaiya Hasan (ruqaiya.hasan@mq.edu.au - book-auth-41) 'Macquarie University (Emeritus)'