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Introduction to Sociology

Beethoven's Secret?

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men [and women] to the divine.

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Communication

Problematizing the process of communication: Not Taking Communication for Granted!

Interpellation

Naming

Is the act of framing, labeling, and identifying the subjectivity (or identity) of a person or a social group. Power is the lynchpin underlying the process of interpellating.

Definition

Defining Signification

Signification

1. Signifying-Process of what and how something is being identified.

Masculine/ Feminine; Good/ Bad.

2. Signifier-Person or Persons identifying, naming an object.

Individual/ Community/ Authority Figure.

3. Signified-What has been, and how an object, person or group has been

identified.

Elite/ Criminal.

Language

Issue of Language

Is there an Issue of Language Use?

Can the use of language pre-determine how people understand and engage the social world(s)?

Race and Ethnicity

Gender and Sexuality

Class

Memory

Poverty

Immigration

Sapir-Whorf Thesis

Sapir-Whorf Thesis

A theory developed by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf that states that the structure of a language determines or greatly influences the modes of thought and behavior characteristic of the culture in which it is spoken.

Judgements

Can be based on distinctions (tastes) but at the core of tastes may lie strong political currents to them; and rarely are things ever apolitical.

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a priori

a priori

Is the imposition of predetermined or prefabricated ideas onto a reality or a subset of reality, these ideas usually come from a discrete and narrowly defined set of observations.

a posteriori

a posteriori

A way of reasoning from known facts or past events rather than making or imposing predetermined or prefabricated explanations or predictions.

a fortiori

a fortiori

Used to express a conclusion for which there is stronger evidence than for a previously accepted explanation by examining and questioning pre-established ideas or explanations.

Do not take things for granted!

Question your base assumptions!

What does this mean?

Challenge your understanding!

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