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Critical Theory, Muted Group Theory, Slides of Sociology of Gender

Montana State University - BillingsSociology of Gender

There is always some people more powerful than others. The silent ones are muted group. This theory applies in political as well as gender inequality.

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Critical Theory
•Necessary to study the lived experience of
real people
•Critical theorists examine social conditions
to bring hidden structures to light.
•Critical theories align themselves with the
interests opposed to those of the dominant
culture.
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Critical Theory

  • Necessary to study the lived experience of real people
  • Critical theorists examine social conditions to bring hidden structures to light.
  • Critical theories align themselves with the interests opposed to those of the dominant culture.

Some CT

  • Feminist Theory
  • Habermas and universal pragmatics
  • Dwight Conquergood and performance studies - Ex: biblical prophets

Feminist Theory as CT

  • Introduction
    • Great Reasons to be a Guy or “Why Women are Jealous of Men
    • How to impress a women/men
    • Haters of Men=Misindry
    • Haters of Women=Misogyny

CT Theory

  • Remember CT’s think a lot about oppression
  • Mission: to challenge/change things
  • Use semiotics, poststructuralism, hermeneutics, whatever-they are rhetorical theories really

Two Approaches of F.

  • Inclusion stage=more public recginition for contributions of women
  • Revisionist stage=challenge definitions used to characterize communication in society “constructionist theory”

Muted Group Theory

  • Based on notion that public discourse is dominated my masculine language
  • Based on notion presented by Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in that the way we talk is the way we think and see or linguistic determinism

Women's Special Characteristics

  • Women express themselves with more difficulty
  • Women understand men’s meanings more easily then vice versa
  • Women create their own meaning outside male system ex: Foss “Women Speak”
  • Women tend to express more dissatisfaction about communication than do men

More

  • Women often make efforts to change the dominat rules of communication.
  • Women are traditionally less likely to coin new words that become popular in society at large. - Ex: Now for a revision