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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When a person adopts a new view of the world, the old views are not usually replaced but are instead integrated into the new framework. What is this process called? | Subsume |
| Who believed in the arbitrary relationship between words and signs. | Ferdinand de sassure |
| what is the term for the physical symbol such as the sound of a word or a written image? | Signifier |
| mental concept or idea that is represented by a symbol in a system of signs? | signified |
| what's functionalism | Human body metaphor, culture and society are interrelated |
| Interdependent | All these things have to be studied together(functionalism) |
| Structuralism | a method of analysis that understands human culture, language, and behavior through the hidden, underlying systems and relationships that organize them |
| Who was the functionalist | Emilie Durkheim |
| Who was the structuralist | Ferdinand de sassure |
| What did sassure believe about language | It was unreliable, unstable by nature but important |
| Guy who made the signified and signifier | Ferdinand de sassure |
| Signified? | mental concept or idea that is represented by a symbol |
| Signifier? | term for the physical symbol, such as the sound of a word or a written image |
| Whose core principles are interdependence, Social cohesion and that Culture has purpose. | Emilie Durkheim |
| No reason that a tree means anything | Ferdinand de sassure |
| who was Claude Levi-Strauss? | anthropologist, attempted to find deep structures that exist on a fundamental level of a culture’s organization, beliefs, and values |
| Systems of signs can be understood in what two manners | sychronic and diachronic |
| Diachronic | system that changes and shifts over time |
| Sychronic | whole system existing in a particular moment |
| Who explained Binary Opposites | Claude Levi-Strauss |
| What are Binary Opposites | paired sets of ideas which divide things into “this” and “that” |
| What did Claude Levi-Strauss believe most cultures understood | Binary opposites |
| Examples of Binary opposites | Male: Female Black: White Day: Night Freedom: Oppression Good: Evil ETC. |
| Who was Roland Barthes | If culture is a system of signs, then it can be read, takes Sassures method of language |
| Who was the guy in prision? | Antonia Gramsci |
| Who made the First Order and Second Order? | Roland Barthes |
| what's the first order? | denotation, what is literally there |
| what's the second order? | connotation, meaning behind the word, |
| whats did Barthes call a MYTH | The second order of a sign, people take as uncounscious assumptions |
| Who was the marxist | Antonio Gramsci |
| Who was Antonio Gramsci | Imprisoned by Mussolini, wondered why people consent to arrangements that don't serve them |
| Dominance? | rule by force |
| Hegemony | "soft force" ruling group expressed through civic society with such force that it becomes common sense like propaganda, rule by consent |
| counter-hegemonic arguments? | critique, dismantle, or offer an alternative to a dominant worldview |
| Who addresed Hegemony and dominant ruling? | Antonio Gramsci |
| Who believed that culture was a "terrain of struggle" not a system for ideology | Antonio Gramsci |
| twas interested in power relationships | Michael Foucault |
| DIscourse | everything in a culture rules, and communication that shapes how we understand reality and decide what is true can be understood in a given moment (synchronic) or as a system that changes over time (diachronic)., |
| Who talked about discourse | Michel foucalt |
| Who stands outside power relations according to michel foucalt? | Nobody |
| We then navigate the world by drawing on the practices, patterns, and strategies available within these regimes of power/knowledge. In doing so, we position ourselves in relation to existing power relations and the possibilities they make available to us? | Michel Foucault |
| According to Michel Foucault can systems of power change? | Yes, he believed that they could reproduce, modify, resist, or disrupt existing arrangements |
| Who talked about power and knowledge | Michel Foucalt |