ANTH 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Disinformation, Pejorative, False Consciousness
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Institutionalized inequalities in power, wealth and status between categories of person within a single social system (gender, class etc. ) Social stratification is the product of social differentiation and social evaluation: what makes certain groups different between each other, evaluating groups based on their perceived differences. The way that inequalities between different social and political categories are marked linguistically. Prescriptive(right and wrong) vs descriptive(different styles of the language)grammar. Logical justifications: in the exam, you need to know these 3 forms, and why they don"t work. The promotion of the needs and interests of a dominant group or class at the expense of marginalize groups by means of disinformation and misrepresentations of those non-dominant groups. Fundamental part of our belief system: negative or pejorative definition: The use of speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker"s race, gender, religion or social class. The ethnic group a person belongs to can be identified from the way he/she speaks.
