CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ingroups And Outgroups, Semiotics, John Galliano

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN2160
• Professor: Patrick Mc Curdy

Document Summary

All the world"s a stage and all the men and women are merely players - william shakespeare, Goffman and gender display (laughey 2010: relative size, the feminine touch, function rankings, family, the ritualization of subordinate, licensed withdrawal. Societies appear to be subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic. E. g. property damage is related to violence, a negative connotation, use of riot . Destruction , high number of people arrested but for lowly acts: prediction. E. g. self fulfilling prophecy, when is the next fight? . Basic differences in fashion, entertainment, transportation were stripped of neutral connotations (in-group meaning) and took on negative connotations (folk devil construct) Important for creating bonds between individuals and drawing more people out for recruitment. People will play up role/language for the media (camera) Media are having too strong of a role (determining effect of impacting individuals)