SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clifford Geertz, Ethnocentrism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

As social beings, we communicate through language and out actions. We order our world by sharing ideas. We symbolically create and understanding of (cid:498)being human(cid:499) through actions. In study of literature, genre is defined based on specific characterizes. Some genres are defined by formal characters (novel, short story, epic poetry, etc) In association to these genres are content (science fiction novels, horror stories, romance novels. This same notion can be applied to tradition verbal genres (folktale, legends) These verbal genres all possess distinctive structural characteristic, can be further grouped based on content. Due to this, this genre is also referred to, incorrectly, as oral literature. Oral literature does not just mean speaking, but rather must be related to verbal genre. Discourse refers to what is indirectly communicated with formal texts. Not something that we can see, rather something that is indirectly communicated (intentionally/unintentionally) Takes (cid:498)two to tangle(cid:499) as communication is a two-way streak.