CSCT 1CS3 Final: cultural studies exam review

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
• Course: CSCT 1CS3
• Professor: Susan Fast

Document Summary

Below are the key terms for the exam. Please feel free to discuss them together as a tutorial group. It might be helpful to break them down into different groupings so that they are easier to remember: Culture as a process of individual enrichment (eg. this person is cultured ) Culture as a particular way of life (eg. french culture, tribal culture, multiculturalism) Culture as an activity, pursued by means of museums, concerts, books and movies. Every human society has (1) its own shape, its own purpose, its own meanings. (2) every human society expresses these, in institutions, and in arts and learning. (they might also be produced here. Culture is not elitist and compartmentalized, but a continual negotiation of power via interactions, texts, and ideas. Ideology (hebdige, marx) in society: systems of belief that exist within all cultures accepted as truth by significant groups. The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling class ideas .