Cultural studies

What is culture?

Culture’, derives from ‘Cultura’ and ‘colere’ meaning ‘to cultivate’. It also meant ‘to honor’ and ‘project’ by the 19th century in Europe it tastes of the upper class (elite).

          ‘Culture’ is the mode of producing meaning and ideas. This ‘mode’ is a negotiation over which meanings are valid. Elite culture controls meanings because it controls the terms of the debate.

What is cultural studies? 

Cultural studies is the science of understanding modern society, with an emphasis on politics and power cultural studies is an umbrella term used to look at a number of different subject. Categories studied include media studies including film and Journalism, sociology, industrial culture, globalization and social theory.

“Cultural Studies is not a tightly coherent unified movement with a fixed agenda, but a loosely coherent group of tendencies, issues, and questions.”

Cultural studies is composed of elements of Marxism, Post structuralism and Postmodernism, Feminism, Gender studies, anthropology, sociology, race and ethnic studies, film theory, urban studies, public policy, popular culture studies and Postcolonial studies: those field that concentrate on social and cultural forces that either create community or cause division and alienation.

What is the main for goals of cultural studies?

 

CULTURAL STUDIES APPROCHES GENERALLY SHARE FOUR GOALS

FIRST: cultural studies trancends the confines of a PARTICULAR DISCIPLINE such as literary criticism or history.

SECOND: cultura; studies is politically engaged.

THIRD: cultural studies denies the separation of “HIGH”AND “LOW” OR elite and popular culture.

FORTH: cultural studies analzes not only the cultural work , but also the means of production.

FIRST DISCUSS A FIRST GOALS.

FIRST :- GOAL

“ Cultural studies trancends the confine of a particular discipline such as literary criticism or history. “practiced in such journal as critical inquiry , representations, and boundary , cultural studies involves scrutinizing the cultural phenomenon of a text – for example italian opera, a latino telenovela, the architectural styles of prisons, body piercling and drawing conclusion about the change in textual phenomena over time.

# Cultural studies is not necessarily about literature in the traditional sense or even about “art”. In their introduction to cultural studies , editors lawrence grossberg,cary nelson , and paula treichler emphasize that the inhllectual promise of cultural studiess lies in the attempts to “ cut across diverse social and political interests and address many of the struggles within the current scene.”

- Intellectual works are not limited by their own “borders” as single texts, historical problems or disciplines , and the critic’s own personal connections to what is being analyzed amy also be described.

     

- Henty giroux and others write in their dalhousie review  manifesto that cultural studies practitioners are “resisting intellectuals” who see what they do as “an emancipatory project.” Because it erodes the traditional disciplinary divisions in most institutions of higher education.

- SECOND GOAL:-

     

      “ Cultural studies is political engaged” cultural critice see themselves as “ oppositional” not only within their own disciplines but to many of the power structures of society at large. They question inequalities within power stuctures and seek to disover modles for restructuring relationship amany dominant and “minority” or “subaltern” discourses. Because meaning and individual subjectivity are culturally construsted , they can thus be reconstructed. Such a notion , taken to a philosophical extreme , denies the qutonomy of the individual, whether an actual person or a character in literature , a rebuttal of the traditional humanistic “great man” or “great book” theory, and a relocational of aesthetics and cultural from the idal realms of taste and sensibility, into the arena of a whole socity’s everyday life as it is constructed.

- THIRD GOAL:-

      “Cultural studies denies the separtion of high and low or elite  and may free from the power culture ,and popular culture     might hear someone remark at the symphony or art museum: “i came here to get a little culture”.

      Being a “cultured” person used to mean being acquainted with “highbrow” art and intellectual pursuits. But isn’s culture also to be found with a pair of tickets to a rock concert

      #    “The practice of every life”

      stydying litrature as an anthropologist would, as a 

      phenomenon of culture , including  a culture’s economy ,

      rether then determining which are the “best” works

      produced , culture wlitics describe what is produced and

      how carious productions relate to one another. They alm to 

      reveal the political, economic reasons why a certain

      cultural product is move valued at certain times then  

      others.   

           

            [ THE BIRTH OF CAPTAIN]

            Transgressing of boundaries among disciplines high and low can make cultural studies just plain fun. Think , for example , of a possible cultural studies research paper with following title: the birth of captian jack sparrow: an analysis . Robert louis stevenson’s long john silver in treasure island (1881) errol flynn’s and robert morgan’s memorable screen pirates , john cleese’s rendition of long  john silver on juarty python’s flying circus, and of course , keith richards’s eye make up.

- FORTH GOAL :-

 #         “Cultural studies analyzes not only the cultural work , but also the means of production.

#          Cultural studies thus joins subjectivity – that is , cultural in relation to individual lives- with engagement , a direct approch to attacking social ills. Thoughcultural studies prectitioners deny “humanism “ or “the humanities” as universal categories, they strive for what they might call “social reason”, which often (closly) resembles the goals and values of humanistic and democratic ideals.

How the power is always a centre in cultural studies?

culture is real name of power those with economic power are able to make cultural products values without economic power are obliged to consumer.


The very idea of power is sustain the exact meaning of hierarchy . As culture reflect itself as a applied legacy of history and How power operates different direction and leading elite group. Promoting, the wide area of expertise own potential, very grabbing hurdle is a person boost and set power, then peoples are only puppets , particular talked about the sense of power in patriarchal society the condition of women is truly poor as same like the poor people who missed to be the chance to be elite.

They have to suffering, struggling and do be with commands of political leaders.

cultural studies as a discipline become when scholars noticed that culture breakdown into cultures or sub cultures and that there was often a clash off meaning practice and quite often class location between them. The scholars of cultural studies begin to realise that culture could be a symbolic battleground between those with power resources and authority tu dictate what counted as normal in society and use without any of these things the names and the normal can be the expression of one social groups interest and preferences.

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