I'm currently enrolled in a Master of Arts in Communication and this 'student' thing is taking a bit (lot) of getting used to...
I finally cracked a book today with grand ambitions of reading two, yes count'em, TWO chapters. Read one, and didn't quite finish it. Got seriously bogged down by theories. What kind of theories? Why, glad you asked, let me take this opportunity to bore you...
In reality, one of the theories was quite familiar to me (cognitive dissonance theory, one of the theories under the 'cybernetics' realm of theories) and that was because cognitive dissonance is behind that uncomfortable feeling of 'buyers remorse.' I guess it helps that I also live alone right now and only have CBC on TV. Save meeeee....
Buyers remorse is a pretty obvious theory. The bigger the purchase, the more the dissonance, or 'remorse'. If you had a choice between two cars, then not a big deal. A choice between a car or a trip to Europe? Big deal. Lots of dissonance. You might even return the car to go on that trip!
That and 'Queer Theory' really called to me. Maybe I will write my paper on those two. Queer theory is the 'untheory' and the 'unlabelling' of all things. Basically, it is how can you normalize things and name them when that is a gender construct and Queer theory serves to deconstruct all that is 'normal' and 'named' but that doesn't mean it is only for gay/lesbian/transgendered...even married people who remain childless by choice can be considered under the Queer theory, because they are bucking social normative conventions as well as gender constructs (women=reproductive organs, etc).
Very interesting! Well, sort of interesting. At least I can extemporize on it a bit, instead of it just whooshing over my head.
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