Some have credit cards and others have giro cheques: 'Individuals' and 'people' as lifelong learners in late modernity

Discourse and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 515-542

  Piper, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Consumption; Corpus linguistics; Discourse analysis; Individualization; Lifelong learning; Social theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343895     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926500011004004     Document Type: Article

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