SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Race Theory, Semiotics, Social Inequality
5 Mar 2017
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Racializing identities: race & racisms in the ei, representing crime in entertainment. The meanings of race, gender and sexuality are all historically specific in different things to different people in different places at different times. Act as a base for the formation of social groups as they have shaped the formation of real or imagined communities of people. Both represent the lived experiences of individuals and groups and reveal clear and real dimensions of social inequality. Critical race theorists have used not only a sociological approach when examining the ei (entertainment industry/popular culture) but have used semiotics as well. Signs are made up of: signifiers the word or image form which the sign takes, cat, signified the concepts and ideas they represent. Semiotics examines how meaning is constructed, interpreted and understood through signs we create, including cinematic and televisual words and images.
