MDSC01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: University Of Birmingham, Reductionism, Culture Industry

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25 May 2016
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An introduction to cultural studies , in cultural studies: theory and. Remember: the anthropological definition of culture; everything around us is culture; By culture, here i mean the actual grounded terrain of practices, representations, languages and customs of any specific society. I also mean the contradictory forms of common sense which have taken root in and helped to shape popular life" (hall, 1996c: A multi-disciplinary field; blurs the boundaries between topics of study; Cannot give an exact" definition of the field (there is no mathematical formula" to explain cs); Yet cultural studies cannot be said to be anything. It is not physics, it is not sociology and it is not linguistics, though it draws upon these subject areas. Stuart hall: what matters is the connection that cs seems to make to matters of power & cultural politics; Cs: an exploration of representations of and for" marginalized social groups and the need for cultural change;

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