Levi-Strauss
A system which analyzes the structures through which we organize our understanding of the world
What is Structuralism?
The concept of a flower and not the word "flower."
What is the Signified?
Prisons
Clinics
Schools
What are examples of disciplinary institutions?
Their "Otherness" is seen as natural
What are women?
What is Habitus?
Light/Dark
Good/Evil
What are Binary Oppositions?
Research that deals with signification
What is Semiology?
Depends on inevitability, not visibility
What is modern power?
Doing laundry
Washing dishes
Folding clothes
What is Immanence?
Dialects/
Ways of dressing/
Education
What is Cultural Capital?
When sound image is attached to a concept (signified+signifier)
What is a sign?
What is an example of denotation?
Produced by discourses, 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?
Reproduce the uneven distribution of “cultural capital" & reflect the interests of the dominant group (ways of learning)
What are Pedagogic Actions?
The result of "differences"
What is Meaning?
Hides nothing; its function is to distort
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?
dimensions: economic and sexual, collective and active
What is Liberation?
A system of culture that is imposed upon groups or classes by ways that this system comes to be seen as legitimate
What is Symbolic Violence?
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 the "essence" that seemingly defines a woman
What is the Eternal Feminine?
Symbolic violence through acceptance of a culture as legitimate and not product of power relations
What is Misrecognition?