Autism and the social world of childhood: a sociocultural perspective on theory and practice, by Carmel Conn, New York, Routledge, 2014, 186 pp., US$47.28 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-83834-4

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-281
Author(s):  
Noel Kok Hwee Chia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals In the midst of theory and practice: a foreword

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hannes Peltonen ◽  
Knut Traisbach
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
World Society ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Abstract This foreword frames the Symposium in two ways. It summarises the core themes running through the nine ‘meditations’ in The Status of Law in World Society. Moreover, it places these themes in the wider context of Kratochwil's critical engagement with how we pursue knowledge of and in the social world and translate this knowledge into action. Ultimately, also his pragmatic approach cannot escape the tensions between theory and practice. Instead, we are in the midst of both.

A Response

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 1103-1108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Koskenniemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Specific Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Constant Source ◽  
The Way

From the preceding essays, but also from the general discussion around From Apology, two themes emerge as a constant source of puzzlement, not least to myself. How does the argument in that book affect – if at all – the way we do international law? And what does the claim to be “critical” really mean? These are, I suppose, aspects of one larger set of problems that permeate the whole of that work. “Oh yes, it does describe the argumentative patterns pretty well. But it does not really change anything, does it?” One might approach this sort of query in different ways. It might be thought of as an expression of the classical theme about the relations of theory and practice in the social sciences. How do academic works influence the social world to which they are addressed? Or one might be more interested in the specific relationship between (academic) doctrines and legal practice – the “outside” and the “inside” of the legal profession.

Whistle for Willie, Lost Puppies, and Cartoon Dogs: The Sociocultural Dimensions of Young Children's Composing

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Haas Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social World ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
The Social ◽  
Composing Processes ◽  
Sociocultural Diversity

No greater challenge currently faces the schools than articulating what a literacy curriculum for sociocultural diversity might look like. And yet the literature on young school children's composing has dealt only peripherally with this issue. In this theoretical essay, the author argues that, even for young children, composing of both oral and written texts (i.e., planning, responding, revising) is a distinctly sociocultural process that involves making decisions, conscious or otherwise, about how one figures into the social world at any one point in time. Drawing on data from an ethnographic project in an urban school, she allows young children's composing processes sociocultural depth and breadth by highlighting variation in the kind of oral and written language genres a child uses, in the kinds of discourse traditions a child draws upon, and in the kind of relationships a child author enacts with others. The author concludes with a discussion of the implications of a sociocultural perspective on young children's composing for literacy teaching and learning.

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