Semiotics
Culture
Theory
DOS
Systems
100
this is both theory and practice of studying signs and interpreting cultural, linguistic, and behavioral sign systems.
what is semiotics
100
This system of knowledge consists of beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions created, learned, and shared by a group of people. This system is not fixed, rather, it is constantly invented, changed, contested, and negotiated.
What is Culture?
100
a formal statement of ideas that are suggested to explain a fact or event, or how something works.
What is theory?
100
This deity is directly associated with Fela and the fertility ritual
Who is the goddess Oshun?
100
is a social system of communication that uses symbols—such as words, sounds, and gestures—organized according to certain rules to convey information.
What is language?
200
This methodology is used in analyzing and interpreting signs. It does so by tracing the meaning behind the sign, situating the signs within history, and enabling us to trace the ways in which meaning shifts and changes with time.
What is known as the semiotic method.
200
The process of social learning we accumulate throughout our lives from the people and organizations that surrounds us is known as this method.
What is Enculturation?
200
Antonio Gramsci theorized this form of power involves the ability of a dominant group to create consent and agreement within a population without the use of threat or force
What is Hegemony?
200
This category of identity, as a flawed system of classification, directly shapes and influences each character's story.
What is race?
200
a system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of the society’s resources—usually moving wealth steadily upward. This system stratify individuals’ life chances and affect their possibilities for upward social mobility
What is social class?
300
This concept associates an emotionally charged desire with an actual product; desire itself becomes the product that the advertisers sell.
What is the commodification of desire?
300
The Spongebob clip shown in class served to exemplify this internal system of cultural classification.
What is mental maps of reality?
What is mental maps of reality?
300
In this theory, Stuart Hall theorizes that communication, media and image portrayal have the power to hold meaning and produce messages.
What is the theory of representation?
300
This particular historical event and labor system sets off and frames the story from beginning to end.
What is slavery?
300
This term is defined by the beliefs, ideas, and assumptions—often incorrect—about what is normal and natural in the world that are then used to explain our preferences and justify patterns of inequality
What is ideology?
400
This form of culture is known as the culture of the masses; a commercialized culture that typically treats entertainment as a for-profit commodity.
What is popular culture?
400
In this approach, culture is explored as a symbolic and interpretive system to understand its deep meaning.
What is the interpretivist approach?
400
This theory states that all social relations within a culture are interconnected and impacted by this system. It is defined as the ability or potential to bring about change through action or influence and may include the ability to influence through force or the threat of force.
What is Power?
400
The sharing of ancestral knowledge, as a way to pass on oral history when text is not available, is done through this oral method
What is storytelling?
400
This ideology serves as both a power ideology and a gender ideology. It also functions as a system of power in society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it
What is patriarchy?
500
A formal semiotic analysis is done with these 4 elements in mind
What is denotation, connotation, ideology, and demographics
500
These four guiding elements help anthropologists and semioticians alike to understand and interact with people and the world around us.
What are norms, values, symbols, and mental maps of reality
500
This theory states argues that gender ideology, gender norms, and gender codes have the power to reinforce gender inequality
What is gender theory?
500
In DOS, this theme bridges both spirituality, ritual, and supernatural abilities together to tell a story; it projects a form of survival and power rooted in African Religion
What is magic realism?
500
With a semiotic approach, semioticians, anthropologists, and other social scientists, work to unmask this system. Taken together, these systems (or categories) have been shown to deeply influence society and popular culture. Name that system.
What is the systems of power: age, race, ethnicity, language, sexuality, gender, and class