culture and conditioning language/gender/class/race
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Culture and Conditioning
Language/Gender/Class/Race
Key Concepts
• Identity Formation- A sense of self that an individual develops through socialization and where he/she develops a sense of difference from family and friends and takes a place in society.
• Identities are also formed through cultures and subcultures.
• Fragmented and fluid Identities• They/Why politics• Sources of identity- Nationality/ethnicity/ sexual
orientation/ gender/ class
• Identity construction therefore a process based on contradictions and dispositions.
• Modernity and Social Change• New social movements• Identity politics• Feminism • Globalization
Language
• Means and medium for the generation of the significance of meaning
• Meaning in central to explication of culture• To investigate culture one has to deconstruct
meaning and see how meaning is produced symbolically in an language as a signifying system
• Signifier and the signified are related to each other in some form or the other
• Criss crossing discourses through which objects and practices acquire significance
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