SOC202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Basic Instinct, Polysemy
17 Oct 2018
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Emile durkheim collective representation: understandings which produce social bonds uniting societies, organizations. Common ways of conceiving, thinking about and evaluating social realty. The process of (cid:498)collective meaning making resulting in common and groups(cid:499) Shared by most of the members of a structured group canadians that are uniform and prevail as the norm: terrorists are bad: emancipated representation. Refers to subgroups that create their own representation with a certain degree of autonomy with respect to the interacting segments of society: vegans, radical groups: hegemonic representation, polemic representation. Related to social conflicts, struggles between groups, and controversies in a society. Determined by antagonistic relations and intended to be exclusive to that group. Communism in a capitalist country, or cultural struggles or debate in restrictive societies. Pop culture is marked by a tendency to position the lower classes economically, politically and ideologically as a (cid:498)stagnation(cid:499) Common tropes are used in which key elements are identified as (cid:498)class and or racial markers(cid:499)
