Week 3, Representation

Question 1

___ informs how you see the world.

Answer 1

Context informs how you see the world.

Question 2

Representation

Answer 2

The social production of meaning through sign systems.

Question 3

Semiotics

Answer 3

• Comes out of Structuralism
• Thinking of human culture as a system/the structure of language
• Saussure and Barthes

Question 4

Sign

Answer 4

Signified
_______

Signifier

Question 5

Mythologies

Answer 5

• Barthes
• Extends Saussure’s ideas to cultural objects/practices
• Sign systems communicate ideological meaning that reinforces status quo. (big picture meaning).

Question 6

Ideologies

Answer 6

Common sense systems of belief that we take to be natural.

Question 7

Myth

Answer 7

Form of representation that works to express or justify dominant values of a culture in a particular historical moment.

Question 8

Connotative meanings have

Answer 8

ideological impart.

Question 9

Discourse

Answer 9

• Foucault
• Social knowledge is produced through institutions, by individuals afforded authority to speak/write.
• Power informs what we think we know to be true in our society.
• Knowledge is power.
• Knowledge as authority.
• Institutions produce knowledge that we take as truth because they have power.

Question 10

Truth does not have to be true, just thought of and acted upon as if it were true.

Answer 10

Regimes of Truth

Question 11

Langue and Parole

Answer 11

How we use the systems/signs to create meaning.

Question 12

The relationship between the signifier and the signified is

Answer 12

arbitrary and culturally agreed upon.

Question 13

Binary Opposition

Answer 13

Things and concepts acquire meaning through what they are NOT.

Question 14

A myth is not a

Answer 14

naturally given truth.

Question 15

A myth can produce a

Answer 15

moral panic.