SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Semiotics, Social Inequality, Black Kids

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 202
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

The meanings of race are historically specific in meaning different things to different people in different places at different times. Act as a base for the formation of social groups as they have shaped the formation of real or imagined communities of people. Both represent the lived experiences of individual and groups and reveal clear and real dimensions of social inequality. Critical race theories have used not only a sociological approach when examining the ei but have used semiotics as well. Signs are made up a) signifiers- the word or image form which the sign takes- and: signified- the concepts and ideas they represent. Together a) and b) create a complete sign. Semiotics examines how meaning is constructed, interpreted and understood through signs we create, including cinematic and televisual words and images that circulate. As our discussion have revealed over the past few weeks, negative or stereotypical representations in media have real consequences.