COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Standpoint Theory, Speech Community, Speech Code

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 201
• Professor: Dawn Johnson

Document Summary

Traces how distinct social groups within a society shape members" experiences, knowledge, and ways of interacting. The groups we belong to are our categories of identity: ethnic groups, socioeconomic group,etc. Culture is not experienced identically by all its members. > we might all be in the same coms class students (all from u of c), but not every individual will experience becoming a coms student internally. >sp theories say people experience the world based on their personal perspective. >a student who may be homeschooled all their life were to be placed in a class with more than 200 students: their experience will be different compared to someone who had never been homeschooled. Standpoint arises out of material, social, and symbolic conditions that influence our experience. > emphasized that race is not an objective category, but a social construction. >gender is a social construct, sex is what you have in birth. Situated knowledges notice that knowledge is situated in social circumstances.