ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Linguistic Relativity, Jargon, Jacques Lacan
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The importance of making things up: some signifieds are real and others (yeti) are not. What do we mean by real: studied by philosophers, psychologists, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, overlapping disciplines, anthropologists focus on small-group constructs and interactive practice. John wisdom (1904-1993) and john austin (1911-1960): ordinary language philosophers. Fake news: when we say reality is constructed, does not mean it is fake, race is not fake as it is a human construction, but functions in society almost as if it was not a human construction. No contradiction: between statements of "reality is constructed" and "yet we can tell reality from non reality (truth from lies)" It may not always be the same as what really exists: the real is what is there before we even understand it. In ordinary language, reality is what is real. In social sciences / humanities jargon, reality is how we understand the real.
