SOC150H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Concept Map
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Can be helpful to understand how practices of oppression can be much more visible to those who face discrimination than those who do not. Critiques universal and timeless notions of truth, certainty, objectivity, and reality. Signified-the real existing thing, exists no matter what we call it or how we see it. Signifier- the words that we use to attach and represent the signified. The relationship between signifiers and signified is a product of specific historical and cultural contexts. Relationship between nature and culture is a central theme in humanities and social science. Symbolic process by which we transform the things we are about to eat from nature to culture. What does that tell us about the nature of the relationship between nature and culture. If nature is a category, we can use this as an explanation for what happens in our lives. If unnatural is the opposite of nature, what is unnatural. Something that is uncommon, falls outside of nature.
