Cultural Studies- During

Question 1

What are the changes during the 1960s concerning Cultural Studies? (4)

Answer 1

(1) expands focus of academic attention
(2) recognition of mass culture
- culture as a sum of life practice
(3) questions the assumed objectivity of literary criticism and social sciences
(4) highlights connections between culture and politics

Question 2

What are the changes of 1970s concerning Cultural Studies? (2)

Answer 2

(1) examination of socio-cultural practices and cultural artefacts in relation to politics and power structures
(2) due to Thatcherism (monoculturalism) there was a development towards the appreciation of „otherness“

Question 3

What changed during 1970s and 1980s? (2)

Answer 3

(1) appreciation towards culture of difference
(2) student body changed
- people not identifying with nation are more interested in culture

Question 4

What changed during the late 80s and 90s? (3)

Answer 4

(1) understood as „academic site for marginal/minority discourses“
(2) new voices in western literary market
(3) production of cultural theory

Question 5

What are Cultural Studies today? (4)

Answer 5

(1) interdisciplinary
(2) no unified theory
(3) diverse field of study
(4) different approaches, methods, and academic questions