KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Studies, Raymond Williams, Social Inequality
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Culture is ways of making and maintaining sense within a given social context. Cultural studies is study of relation between culture and society. But what is society? (cultural studies answer at end of lecture) History of cultural studies helps us to understand nature of society. Cultural studies emerges as response to and critique of some assumptions about the relation between culture and society in capitalist societies. ". History of the relation between culture and society. For plato, the ideal state is one that avoids change to the extent possible. A stable and secure state rests on the assumption of an absence of uncertainty, instability and social unrest, eg. change. Plato"s position can be understood as that of an extreme conservative. Ir is one of the constitutive moments of modern european and indeed world history and is in some respects on-going. Ir is the name given to the very rapid process in which.
