KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Studies, Industrial Revolution, Richard Hoggart
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Society: relations between people and the institutions that emerge out of those relations. Cultural studies: study of the relation between culture and society. History of cultural studies helps us understand relation. Plato"s allegory of the cave (republic, book vii) Plato"s argument is that every society, all our beliefs and values with people are as if we are in a movie theatre. Every society is as if the people in that society are living within a movie theatre. Most of us, have no access to anything but the real. Questions what would happen if one of the prisoners goes free. > says they wouldn"t want to go free, because they don"t know what its like. > however if they did they would see a passageway and go through and than get disoriented by the light ( eyes would need to adjust to new light > knowledge )
