FSN 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sensory System, Roman Jakobson, Scientific Method
22 Sep 2019
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Looking is not neutral: choice & power, are you being forced to see things, are you restricted, unconscious, we are not aware of the reading we are doing, world is oriented around ways of looking. In process create slightly different senses: only one version of sense model, historically recent, exported through colonialism, each society ahs its own emphasis and ratio, people experience the world differently, the gambia. "ya ma sagal" (the feeling of being cherished and therefore belonging: maori. Foundational to every part of your day, everyday: perspectives are enrooted to social location, you are taught how to see, how you grew up shapes your perceptions. Factors that affect your social location: education. Identity: family values, sexual orientation, economic class, physical health, gender & ethnicity, religion, age. Important theories: ferdinand de saussure (swiss linguist active beginning of the 20th century, roman jakobson (russian linguist, mid 1950s, claude l vi-strauss (french anthropologist, umberto eco (italian theorist 1960s)
