SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Stereotype
3 Feb 2014
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Sapir whorf hypothesis: language and the important role of words, language and speech, gender differences and power, viewing killing us softly 4 by jean killbourne on wednesday jan 8 (45 minutes, culture: totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviour (schaefer and smith, 2004: 63). What have been your observations from your social gatherings: compared to men women are more likely to speak about topics related to their feelings, that are connected to them in some manner, anecdotes, reveal through their conversations emotional facts about themselves, men report talk talk about things distant to them, talk that is hierarchical, men have been raised to not talk about their, they have been socialized not to talk about personal feelings feelings, they tend to dominate the conversations, women rapport talk emotional talk, language of connection, mediation, emotion, women see mens speech as tiring and repetitive, discourse and power: (nelson, 2010: 181)
