People

Question 1

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Answer 1

each language decisively influences the way its speakers think.

Question 2

JACQUES LACAN

Answer 2

Reinterpreted Freud
Stages of How the Self Develops:

1. Real (uncategorized experience)
2. Imaginary (mirror stage – the ego forms, images/icons understood, no language yet)
3. Symbolic (accomplished through “language,” sense of self and its place in society develops, through support from others in society, esp. parents)

Ego learns to understand “I” as part of a society, that is, in relation to “you” and “he/she/they.”

Question 3

Clifford Geertz

Answer 3

Religion is about what is “really real.”

Question 4

Bruno Latour

Answer 4

even if we do not believe in anything we understand as “religious,” the world is still an enchanted world to us.

Question 5

Camille Paglia

Answer 5

I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea.

Question 6

Benedict Anderson

Answer 6

imagined community) A group who feel and act like a community but don’t know each other face to face

Question 7

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Answer 7

found that in Brazil mothers did not lavish love on some children that they deemed incapable of survival, but rather they sincerely believed that these babies “wanted to” die and go to heaven.

Question 8

Malay in Pulau Langkawi

Answer 8

“The core substance of kinship in local perceptions is blood, and the major contribution to blood is food”

Question 9

Karl Marx

Answer 9

Base and Superstructure

Question 10

Elmer

Answer 10

economic system is called “systems of production”

Question 11

Antonio Gramsci

Answer 11

Hegemony is the way in which unequal power is practiced by means of instilling consent among all or most social group

Question 12

Michel Foucault

Answer 12

Governmentality

Question 13

Jeremy Bentham

Answer 13

the inventor of PANOPTIC

Question 14

Michael Wesch Waxes

Answer 14

enthusiastic about : the community-building, grassroots and liberating character of the internet.

Question 15

Evgeny Morozov

Answer 15

against overly optimism. Morozov disagrees that the Arab Spring was mainly the result of demonstrators having access to the internet. He shows how governments also used the internet to spy on the demonstrators. More recently, measures to repress or to influence public discussion on the internet have been taken by a large number of governments across the world

Question 16

ANTONIO NEGRI

Answer 16

“You never know if your actions are resistance or just the first step in the next phase of the hegemony.”