HECOL360 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cosplay, Hijab, Gender Identity
14 Sep 2016
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Pick 3 of 4 short essay questions (questions will ask you to relate to a larger theme with 1+ more readings from the term. Using concrete examples from texts to support your point is encourage) Open book and note; but you must bring hard copies of materials - no electronic. Fred davis (do clothes speak) how is the clothing code di erent from verbal language. Undercoding: because of ambiguity, people take their life experiences and stereotypes, they ll in information drawn from own experiences if they do not fully understand. Signs are part of a code- a system of signs. Each sign has meaning only in relation to other words in the system: it means something in part because what it is not. Besides what it is not, a sign takes on meaning in relation to other signs in its vicinity, or those which precede or follow it.
