KS100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Social Inequality, Richard Hoggart
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What is cultural studies: cultural studies is not the study of culture, cultural studies is the study of the relation between culture and society. What is culture: from latin cultura meaning to grow , differs from natura, which also means to grown, because nature does not need tending, does not need human intervention. Think agriculture: cultura means to raise, to tend, in that cultura requires assistance, thus agriculture, horticulture, but also bacteria culture as in yogurt, cultura originally refers only to livestock or crops, but used metaphorically by. Romans to refer to the raising of children. The third de nition indicates a somewhat or potential passive relation to culture. We are born into a culture and learn or develop the norms, etc of that culture. Cultural studies de nition of culture: culture is the ways of making and maintaining sense within a given social and environmental context.
