SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Conversation Analysis, Hermeneutics, Fathers 4 Justice
29 Apr 2016
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The examination of documents and texts: e. g. printed, visual, or virtual. Eyres and altheide (1999) examine how vietnamese, black, and hispanic gang activities are represented by los angelestimes reporters. Kennedy"s (2006) study of the canadian fathers" rights movement: fathers for justice (ffj, how the movement developed a collective identity, a case study approach that focuses on the collective identity of ffj, employing a. 3 pronged methodology - participant observation (2 years), semi-structured interviews (members), and content analysis (review of relevant documentation) We are driven by a desire to make/create meaning. Signs are entities that hold meaning: such things have no intrinsic meaning and become signs only when we invest them with meaning. It is this meaning of signs which is at the heart of the concerns of semiotics. Semiology derives from the work of the swiss linguist ferdinand de saussure. Semiotics seeks to uncover the hidden meanings.
