CMN 2173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Semiotics, Structuration Theory
29 Mar 2016
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The study of semiotics wants to integrate what structuralism left out. But its project is not to discover structure but a structured meaning. It is not looking for structures but processes of structuration. Meaning is not imposed, meaning is structured with the participation of the human agency when we talk about meaning we"re talking about a process through which meaning is produced and that process is called structuration. Structuration - structures are not external to social life, social actors but they"re produced by social actors. Structuration: there exists another structure which is the subject who acts upon other structures as well. Structures exist but are not totalizing like in structuralism. In a sense, the subject has its own structure; it determines itself and is autonomous. Meaning depends then of the subject not entirely of structures. Through social interaction with other structures, appearances, practices and knowing our context. Concepts don"t have any meaning unless they become concrete.
