Cultural studies Flashcards

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Defining culture studies

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Culture as an academic area - combining its two aspects
- Arts: film, literature, paint, movies, etc.
- Social studies: ways of living - food, family life, age, gender
- Interdisciplinary field: anthropology, sociology, media studies

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Richard Hoggart 1960’s

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Started culture studies as ‘self-project’: Centre for contemporary studies (using text to examine cultural change in society)

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Stuart Hall 1970’s

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Shift in culture studies - aimed attention at structure of power and inequality: race, gender and class
- influenced by Marxian theories of ideology and shaping from ‘above’

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Theory and culture studies

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No primary theory - combination of linguistic and radical theories central in 1970’s
- strong influences by sociology

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Infra-ordinary
- David Morley

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Mundane parts of life that are often overlooked: used to describe the cultural and social practices that shape our lives; the way we dress, what we eat, the media we consume

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Communication in culture studies

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understanding communication as the sum of cultural and social factors - cultural studies reveal how communication can be used to challenge dominant ideals and social structures

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