SOC 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Roland Barthes, Mind, Essentialism
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* represent: lend physical presence or voice on behalf of a constituency When such a manifestation of presence of voice by the whole of that constituency would be impossible, stand in for a person. * codes/sign systems, of language, that makes representation popular through the mechanics (how meaning is generated) and the ideologies that determine what meanings circulate in different historical contexts. * representation: the social production of meaning through sign systems. * cultural rules on who gets to peak for whom, and under what circumstances. Constructing a crisis: the discourse of violent youth. * representation involves the social production of meaning through sign systems; signs are units of communication (words, gestures, etc) which evolve to communicate pre-existing realities; however, reality differs in different cultures. * concerned not with what words/cultural practices mean, but rather with how they mean, according to the structure from which they are generated.
