ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ordinary Language Philosophy, Jargon, Benjamin Lee Whorf

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

Document Summary

Goals: discuss society, culture, and language as universal traits with particular manifestations, understand social structure; deconstruct society and culture, decolonialize the imagination, talk about dogs. Reality as a construction: construction: formed by ppl in society, nurture not nature, reality. The world as it makes sense to us. Most of reality does not come across to us without the filter of signs and language. It may not always be the same as what rlly exists: the real. Jargon vs ordinary language: ordinary language: reality is what is real, in social science/ humanities jargon: reality is how we understand the real. It is our reality: reality seems real, we live in it; the real is not our reality, we do not understand it. Language constructs reality: creates an understanding of distinct concepts and categories as if they were part of the objective world, such understandings have a bearing on our reality, race- real to us but not the real.