Thinking Activity : Unit 1 Cultural Studies

Thinking Activity Unit :-1 Cultural Studies

What is culture?

                       Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behaviour and norms found in human, societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs arts, laws, customs, capabilities and habits of the individual in these groups. 

                                A cultural norms codifies acceptable conduct in society, in serves as a guideline for behaviour, dress, language and demeanor in a situation. Which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Culture is the sum of total of the learned behaviour of a group of people that are generally consideraed to be the tradition of that people and are trans tradition of that people and are trans mitted from generation to generation. 

What is cutural studies? 

                                 Cultural studies is the analysis of a culture's systems meaning, production and consumption. Cultural studies refers to areas of theory focus on forms of culture that are ordinarily produced and circulated within " the group central to their societies be thay hegemonic or non-hegemonic, and often on cultural artifacts implicated in economics and social power. These theories often originate in Marxist or material culture analysis, but soon redefine the concept of production. I is not simply the study of different cultures but uses many other studies to analyze different cultures such as philosophy, theology and literature etc. Cultural studies helps discower and the reason groups of people act the way they do. 

• Four Goals of cultural studies 

  

1. Cultural studies transcends the confirm of a particular discipline such as literacy criticism or history 

                           A cultural study is practiced in such journalist as critical fnqurity, Representation and boundary. Italian opera, a latino' telenovela' the architectural styles of prisons, body piercing and drawing conclusion about the changes in textual phenomena over time such things are found in these kinds of newspapers cultural studies not simply or essentially about literature in the tradition. 

2.  Cultural studies is politically engaged. 

                              The cultural critics see themselves as "oppostional" not only within there own discipliner but to many of the power structures of society at large. The cultural critics question inequalities within power structures and try to find out the models for restructuring relation ships among the dominant and " minority" of " subaltern" Discourses. 

3.  Cultural studies demise the separation of 'high' and 'low' or elite and popular culture. 

                            In these days cultural critics work to transfer the term culture to include mass culture, whether popular, folk, or urban. Jean Belldrillard, Andreas Huyssen and some other critics of cultural studies argue that after world war  2 the distinction among high law and mass culture collapsed. The look forward on other theorists like pierre  boundary and Dick Hebdige on how " good taste often only reflecting prevailing social economic and political power based." 

4.  Cultural studies analysis not only the cultural works, but also the means of production. 

                            A well known analysis of literary production is sanice Radway's study of the America Romance and its readers," Reading the Romance", women, patriarchy and popular literature which demonstrates the textual effects of the publishing industries decisions effects of the publishing industy's decision about books that will reduce its financial risks". 

'power' of cultural studies 

                           Power at the center of cultural studies. We do not have the power of choice, power comes from how it is exercised what you can do. 

                          Power is ability to make others do what you would have them do according to michel foucault, the nation that power is a whole complex of firces, it is which produces what appears. 

                                      Thank you... 

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