SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Media Studies, Cultural Relativism, English Canada
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Culture is broad, multidirectional, and the way we make sense of and give meaning to things. How groups of people live their lives and communicate. Stuart hall: shared conceptual maps of meaning. Everything happens at a particular moment and has all sorts of meaning. Symbols we use to give meaning to and represent our world in a particular way. Allows us to construct, share, and externalize meanings. It allows us to build on and pass culture. Through language we learn a certain way of thinking and perceiving. Ideologies: shared cultural knowledge or sets of beliefs which serve the interests of particular groups. Culture is power and power is an ideology. Interested in how people were convinced to believe these. Discourse: a framework of shared cultural understandings (our knowledge and how we have meaning systems about everything) Expressed through language, images, and social practices. Privilege certain ways of understanding and marginalize others. Values; shared standards of good or bad.
