ANT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault, Panopticon
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Lecture 7 power, politics, and social practice: response paper topic will be available on thursday, and will be due next thursday, march. How are they interconnected: language can be used to gain power; power could be linked to institutions, ex: undocumented person vs. illegal immigrant. Power relations can be enacted in, through, and by language: three theoretical frameworks to understand this better, hegemony gramsci, discourse foucault, practice theory bourdieu. People have always wanted to know how power is exerted. How is it that people accept the domination of state: critic italian government = prison. Institutions are important position they are in is their own best interest: we are not fully free individuals , if elite is able to influence schools, they can shape people to believe that the social. Ex standard english is more important than english with an accent. People who don"t have this way of speaking will still believe that standard english is better.
