MDSC01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Hoggart, Raymond Williams, Post-Structuralism
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Most influential paradigms: marxism, culturalism, structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis and the politics of difference (feminism, theories of race, ethnicity and postcolonialism). Emphasis on class struggle between bourgeoisie (owners of the means of production) and proletariat (must sell their labour to survive); Culture and politics are structured by economic relations; Cs: cultural practices are commodified by corporate cultural industries (remember horkheimer. Cs: has resisted the economic determinism inherent in some marxist readings and has asserted the specificity of culture. Cs: interest in questions of culture, ideology and hegemony; Focuses on interpretation as a way of understanding meaning; Emphasizes the ordinariness" of culture and the active, creative capacity of people to construct shared meaningful practices; Culture: explores in its material conditions of production and reception; Structure: predictable regularities that lie outside of any given persons; Searches for the constraining patterns of culture and social life which lie outside of any given person; Individual acts are explained as the product of social structures.
