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September 28, 2005
Mimesis or Social Construction
“Representation refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. Do these systems of representation reflect the world around us, as it is, mimesis, or do we construct the world and its meaning through the systems of representation we deploy? In this Social constructionist approach we only make meaning through specific cultural contexts….Hence the material world only has meaning and only can be seen by us, through these systems of representation.”
Please comment, based on your readings of Chapter one in POL and our discussion in class....
Posted by lcisEllen at September 28, 2005 10:40 AM