COMN 1600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Capital, Social Inequality, Cisgender

• School: University of Denver
• Department: Communication - COMN
• Course: COMN 1600
• Professor: Moana De Almeida

Document Summary

Halls introductions and representations chapters - class discussion. Red blood is bad because it means you"re dying or injured. Red can also mean passion or lust. In the us white is for weddings but in other cultures it is for funerals. The people in power are the ones who decide what words have meaning- i. e. red = bad. The one in power are able to circulate their ideas and they become the popular meaning, because other meanings are snuffed out. With colonization the meaning of white as pure came about. Used to justify colonization and subjection of all other colors of people. Funerals are a sad is a construct that is culturally specific. Families are also constructed via societal constructs. Too much concentration of power in a very few- the 1% dictate the fate of the. We are kind of part of 1%- in the richest country at a private university.