SOC309Y1 Chapter Notes -Interpersonal Communication, Limpopo, Veld
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Rumor, gossip and blame: implications for hiv/aids prevention in the. Article examines the articulation of aids through gossip and rumor. There is much confusion about aids questions of who to blame, why it affects some people and not others. Article: explores people"s response to aids by interrogating cultural and social production in a contemporary south african society. Methods: conversations, interviews about aids, recording of conversations, group discussions, etc. Gossip and rumor not simply conventional storytelling they evaluate reputations and reveal contradictions. Gossip about aids not only describe, but is prescriptive creates moral readings of behaviour, linking aids to discourses of tradition, gender and generational relationships. Rumours of aids has power to construct moral panic. The threat of aids is real, rumours about aids construct it as a social danger that is out of proportion to the actual threat offered. (over exaggerated) Present study: kwabombha (village in bushbuckridge district of rural limpopo province home to 30,000 shangaan speakers)
