Muted Group Theory Essay
The bible is very male-centric. In the first chapter of the Bible, for example, God gives Adam the right to name the world around him. “…Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” This paper will explore how women are a muted group in one of the most widely known and influential books in history; the bible. Scientific research has revealed that women have been largely excluded from creating language. Muted Group Theory (MGT), from a feminist point of view, argues that the language women speak was man-made and is dominated by the male’s perception. The MGT originated out of anthropological research as a way to describe power differences among people studied.
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The Merriam Webster dictionary defines language as “communication with words: the human use of spoken or written words as a communication system. This definition is adequate but does not capture how language shapes and defines our reality. Language is our means of classifying our world.
“Masculine bias in the English language is not confined to word meanings alone, it is built into every structure the linguist and supports the male as normal paradigm.” MGT supports the concept that language reflects a worldview and that the dominant group within a society creates a language system that supports its conception of the world and then call it the language of the society, while that same lot at the same time subjugating others to experiences that are not reflected in that language.
The Muted Group Theory rests on three assumptions:
1) Women perceive the world differently from men because of women’s and men’s different experience and activities rooted in the division of labor.
2) Male are the dominant group in society which will make female's point of view to be lest competent.
3) To be a part of the society and to dominate, female must act similar to those of the dominant groups, in terms of their perception towards
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines language as “communication with words: the human use of spoken or written words as a communication system. This definition is adequate but does not capture how language shapes and defines our reality. Language is our means of classifying our world.
“Masculine bias in the English language is not confined to word meanings alone, it is built into every structure the linguist and supports the male as normal paradigm.” MGT supports the concept that language reflects a worldview and that the dominant group within a society creates a language system that supports its conception of the world and then call it the language of the society, while that same lot at the same time subjugating others to experiences that are not reflected in that language.
The Muted Group Theory rests on three assumptions:
1) Women perceive the world differently from men because of women’s and men’s different experience and activities rooted in the division of labor.
2) Male are the dominant group in society which will make female's point of view to be lest competent.
3) To be a part of the society and to dominate, female must act similar to those of the dominant groups, in terms of their perception towards