SOSC 1910 Lecture Notes - Sicko
12 Feb 2014
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End of page 22 unified rhetorical occasion/staging/spectacle where offense is brought in adversarial conflict with law: the language used and the conventions are very clearly marked as a special discourse, speech act involving cultural norms, knowledge, power etc. attempt by the state to restore a certain social order, does not mean that the process of law will be successful video : representation & the media. Culture as primary the distortions the media makes the way in which we make sense of, or give meaning to the world we all don"t make sense of things in the same way if we did not share concepts we would not have any sense of shared culture maps of meaning frameworks of intelligibility the things that allow us to make sense of a word that exists but is ambiguous until we put a shared conceptual meaning towards it.
