SOCI 3810 Study Guide - Final Guide: Semiotics, Stereotype, Manichaeism

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3810
• Professor: Carmela Murdocca

Document Summary

The poliics of representaion is an important concept which helps us analyze how power, privilege, and idenity are interconnected with the dominant discourses or explanaions of crime (khan, 2014, p. 49). These depicions of certain phenomena or events such as crime, uilize language that always carries meaning and is not neutral. For instance, media representaion can render certain racialized ideniies as dangerous, thus subordinaing them. Discourse, according to foucault is an ideological pracice which systemaically organizes knowledge into truth regimes; thus, it refers to a way of wielding power to create reality and knowledge (khan, 2014, p. Language is the way through which a lot of that knowledge is oten created. According to stuart hall however, representaion presents an image and ofers a depicion of it, thus carrying the noion that an iniial image was there and has been re-represented".