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Peer reviewedSteele, Tracey – Teaching Sociology, 2003
Describes an exercise that combines outlined strategies to help students master the abstruse power of the linguistic relativity hypotheses in divining the relationship among language, thought, and culture in U.S. society. States the exercise accomplishes three important pedagogical tasks and that educator interaction with students motivates the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness
Cooper, Barry – 1976
This paper empirically examines one aspect of Basil Bernstein's sociolinguistic account of educational failure, a code thesis wherein a restricted code is defined as giving access only to "particularistic" meanings and an elaborated code is defined as giving access also to "universalistic" meanings. According to Bernstein,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Failure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension
