Hypothesis Assignment: Framing Social Values (Work with me here. I am formulating ideas for a thesis on unintentional propaganda and this is part of an assignment so it may not be immediately understandable. Big things, good things, are coming.) Hypothesis: Individuals of multiple ages, social classes and genders within a specific ethnic group internalize general frameworks (“interpretive schemata” or “logics… Read More
Reflections on Barthes And Structuralism Structuralism is essentially the study of Saussure’s linguistics applied to the study of the underlying structure of a society’s means of communication(s) that give that society’s words contextual meaning.1 Roland Barthes may not have been the first to analyse Saussure, but he penetrated its implications more than anyone at the time. Barthes defined structuralism as… Read More