Throughout the semester we have developed a critical outlook to the role media exerts on our life. We began with Stuart Halls perspective of the dominant ideology and the way media acts to support these ideas. Derrida exerts we must work toward a dialectical process to challenge one another. He envisions part of academics role is to challenge the dominant ideology as suggested by Stuart Hall. I will examine how we are prepared in school and the questions beyond the academic setting.
Education strives to build awareness, increase understanding, and see the world in new ways.
Each of us can recall the knowledge we have been introduced to and the way it challenged us. We have spoken in great length about U.S. involvement in third world countries. We critiqued the demographic population and how certain types of people are forced from one part of Los Angeles to another and the underlying historical structural intricately linked to influence of power. We examined the views of the pschyoanalysts and how the world has been defined according to Freud. Through Michel Foucault, we reevaluated the way sexuality has evolved.