HGA203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Geography, Discursive Psychology, Intertextuality
3 Jul 2018
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Social and political science: week 6
Critical thinking: Not accepting world at face value, thinking in depth about the
approach people are taking in their discourse
- Important to always be critical
Discourse analysis: a language
- Conversation
- Text
- Visual imagery
- A shorthand for language in its broadest sense
- Language is per formative, it’s a practice: not different from material world
oDifference between ideas and material world: non-existent
oEvery representation is a form of discourse
- Language frames our world
- It is concerned with the analysis of language
- Entails a critical reading of test in order to make explicitly its meaning and
significance
- A more sophisticated meaning taken from text
- Power in contemporary society:
oFundamental to the way society is organsied
oNot exercised through force; but through conversation
oRelationship between power and language
oReliance on texts for communication
oWay of reflecting depending on the context: if having conversation in a
different setting, may not have the same power
oContext is everything: cannot consider texts in isolation
oKey task is to always look at the context: significance of language in
wider setting
oPeople in power use discourse in a way to promote power or change
- Texts change the way we think of the world and how we understand who we
are as well as the world around us
- Discourse analysis an established method for social research
- Charts the theoretical influences:
oWhy discourse analysis became significance
oLanguage an important concern for philosophists
oBelieved that all the problems in the world with philosophy basis, were
problems to do with using the wrong language
- Traditional research whilst useful in uncovering the role of bureaucratic modes
of organisation overlooks the importance of power and ideology
oEncourage research to focus on managerial role of problems
oNarrow understanding of contemporary politics
oGay marriage: would this have been possible 50 years ago, no. what’s
happened to make this debate become more possible
Change in environment
Ideology: the way ideas influence the way we see things
Powerful ideas shape the way we see the world, and think
oHow we see the world shapes the ideas we have
oIdeas and cultural values have an impact on how we think and feel
- Duality of experience and representation:
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Document Summary
Critical thinking: not accepting world at face value, thinking in depth about the approach people are taking in their discourse. A shorthand for language in its broadest sense. Language is per formative, it"s a practice: not different from material world: difference between ideas and material world: non-existent, every representation is a form of discourse. Entails a critical reading of test in order to make explicitly its meaning and. It is concerned with the analysis of language significance. A more sophisticated meaning taken from text. Texts change the way we think of the world and how we understand who we are as well as the world around us. Discourse analysis an established method for social research. Charts the theoretical influences: why discourse analysis became significance, language an important concern for philosophists, believed that all the problems in the world with philosophy basis, were problems to do with using the wrong language. Ideology: the way ideas influence the way we see things.
