Ladd CH2 p. 76-77 Marvin Miller

Discusses the concept of “discourse analysis” in understanding how certain thinking, cultural values, and beliefs come to existence and those with prestigious discourses like in universities, medical establishments and communication media can establish “knowledge” and create the “discursive system.” This system has often been a tool of colonialism of minority cultures that do not have the same kind of “discourses” like those of majority cultures.