Disciplinary Matrices of Socialization and Student Reading

We cannot know sociologically the variation in student reading practices which are anchored in the disciplinary frameworks which give them sense. In effect, these practices do not really comprise anything other than what we know as constituent elements amongst others of a study style, each type of study can be thought of as a specific scholarly socializing matrix. The sociological drive to think of the internal differences of the student world in matters of reading practice, intellectual habits, cultural practices, and relations in the scholarly, social and economic world is revelatory of a redefinition of the dominant figure of «the cultivated man» and of legitimate cultural forms.
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