SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Counterhegemony, Culture Industry, Grammatical Gender
8 Dec 2015
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The larger umbrella of culture culture tends to be defined as the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviour. Frames the way in which we understand our world. Regarded as the building blocks for social life as a whole. Language does more than describing a particular reality. Language works to shape our reality, of culture. The role of language in interpreting the world around us. People come to an understanding of their world through language. Linguistic determinism language determines thought its members interpret what they hear: the ways a particular group uses language influences the way. Our language promotes/encourages/sustains inequalities between men and women through the process of ignoring, stereotyping, and deprecating. Stereotyping (170-174: words highlight boundaries", stereotyping involves the reduction of images and ideas into simple and manageable forms; the function of stereotypes is to perpetuate an artificial sense of difference between self" and.
