PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Methamphetamine, Nanny, Social Inequality
13 Apr 2012
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Primary focus of study: the way social power abuse, dominance, power abuse, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context (van dijk, 2001). Focus is on social power of groups and institutions where power is defined in terms of control. Take a position and therefore at least resist social inequality. Main tenets of critical discourse analysis (fairclough & wodak, 1997, 271-80): cda addresses social problems (dominance), power relations are discursive. What are the social consequences of such control: control of public discourse. Most people only have control over talk with friends, family, and workmates. People are also passive targets of talk/text with police, tax people, bosses (people in controlling contexts). They want to accept beliefs from those they see as credible (this is subjective). Obligation to be recipients (jobs, education, children, upbringing). May not have the knowledge (hence the discourse) to challenge the information they are exposed to.
