Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Binary Opposition, Deconstruction, Ethnology

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Anthropology, literacy studies, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology. Structuralist approaches used to analyze diverse phenomena. Language is the model = to base their analysis. They argued if language works like this, other things might have similar structure. Structuralists view social and cultural phenomena as bearing meaning and thus as signs. Structuralists view social and cultural phenomenas parts of differential systems, not as having essential meanings in themselves. Ex. kicking a ball bt 2 posts = no essential meaning = only w/i the system of sport that this gesture has a signi cance/meaning of scoring a goal. Structure is the thing that matters under the surface (most important thing even if we can"t see it) That structure determines the position of every element. The structure is hidden or obscure most of the time, but it is the real thing beneath. Focus on coexistence rather than change (ex. proceed synchronically rather than diachronically) Structuralism tries to think a structure without a centre.

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