SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heterosexuality
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* organized systems of knowledge that make possible what can be spoken about and how one can speak about it. * over time, if we circulate the same kinds of ideas through multiple sources, the meaning congeals (ex. repetition through movies, books, songs, etc) * news (papers, television, tweets), documentary, personal accounts, statistics, violent incidents, etc. * the elements of discourse (italicized) are about setting the terms of the debate - how we even think about the subject matter; what can be spoken about, what can be asked, what is intelligible to say. Discourse of heterosexuality, an intelligible comment is if you say i"m heterosexual but i like members of the opposite sex . * how do the different representations of shooters and victims leave us feeling about them: shooter makes us feel resentful, scared, sad, pity, victim makes us feel empathetic, sad, fear because we may be like them.
