SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Meritocracy, Peggy Mcintosh, Male Privilege
27 Jan 2018
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Humans depend on culture rather than their instincts. Have to learn and adapt one generation to the next. Have common elements; symbols, language, laws, norms, sanctions, etc. Capacity to communicate with one another through the use of language. Everything we learn is through language and course of social interaction. Stuart hall: language article how to deconstruct meaning in our culture. Language can be verbal and non verbal, written and unwritten. Language and culture give rise to one another in constant interaction. La(cid:374)guage refle(cid:272)ts so(cid:272)iety"s attitudes, ra(cid:272)is(cid:373) (cid:894)(cid:272)olour sy(cid:373)(cid:271)olis(cid:373)(cid:895: privilege medium in which we construct meaning. People give meaning, give language value and significance. Through socialization that we learn our culture. Agents of socialization refer to groups, people and institutions. Develop personality by internalizing social experiences (cid:862)feral(cid:863) (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) hard to develop personality: nurture is more important than nature (modern sociologists, nature gives us capacity to be human beings. Sometimes we are resocialized ex. total institution.
