Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Chapter 50 Summary

In this chapter, Representation adn Difference by Stuart Hall, he explained that how society makes sense of what is happening in the world is through differences. Hall goes on to divide these into 4 main catagories and theories on how we differ things:

1. Linguistics- The essential of knowing what difference is is to know the opposite of it, ex: dark and light

2. Language- We know what differences are because we can put them to a dialogue.

3. Anthropological- Cultures giving different items a meaning.

4. Psychoanalytic- The "other" is to our identity as a subject and our sexual identity

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