Levi-Strauss
A system which analyzes the structures through which we organize our understanding of the world
What is Structuralism?
The physical flower you hold in your hand and not the word "flower."
What is Signified?
Prisons
Clinics
Schools
What are disciplinary institutions?
Attitude that a person’s destiny is of their own making
What is Existentialism?
What is Habitus?
Light
Dark
What are Binary Oppositions?
Research that deals with signification
What is Semiology?
(Dis)continuous visibility and control which leads to efficient, self-regulating bodies
What is the Panopticon?
Doing laundry
Washing dishes
Folding clothes
What is Immanence?
Dialects
Ways of dressing
Education
What is Cultural Capital?
What is a sign?
What is an example of denotation?
Produced by discourse, or how we talk about things
What is knowledge?
The ability of a woman to pursue in freedom a project her own making in the world
What is Transcendence?
Virtue made of necessity: filling and cheap food, functional aesthetics
What is the taste of the working class?
The result of "differences"
What is Meaning?
Does not hide things but distorts them and their history
What are Myths?
Turns human beings into “docile bodies” in order to eventually make them useful to the modern capitalist system
What is disciplinary power?
Must be economic and sexual, collective and active
What is Liberation?
Ways of learning from peer groups, education, and family
What are Pedagogic Actions?
Two parallel modes of acquiring knowledge
What are Logic of the Concrete and Logic of the Abstract?
Through the use of a second order signs (myths), naturalizes social reality
What is Ideology?
The place in which to analyze power in modern society and its link to knowledge
What is the Body?
The name for an "essence" that seemingly defines a woman
What is the Eternal Feminine?
When one accepts culture as legitimate and not the product of power relations
What is Misrecognition?