Tuesday, 04 - February - 2020
Culture , Cultural Studies , Four Goals of Cultural Studies and Examples. Hello Reader...
I'm presenting one more blog about Culture and Cultural Studies. Our Professor Dr. Dilip Barad Sir gives this blog for better understanding of Cultural Studies and also Culture. Culture is the part of our day to day life.
Cultural studies, interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of social institutions in the shaping of culture. Cultural studies emerged in Britain in the late 1950s and subsequently spread internationally, notably to the United States and Australia. Originally identified with the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham (founded 1964) and with such scholars as Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall, and Raymond Williams, cultural studies later became a well-established field in many academic institutions, and it has since had broad influence in sociology, anthropology, historiography, literary criticism, philosophy, and art criticism. Among its central concerns are the place of race or ethnicity, class, and gender in the production of cultural knowledge.
Four Goals of Cultural Studies.
1.Interdisciplinary Studies.
Interdisciplinary in means that Branch of study. Interdisciplinary involves the combining of two or more academic discipline into one activity. It is about creating new by crossing boundaries, and thinking across them.
What is Interdisciplinary?
It is released to an interdisciplinary field , which organizational unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic discipline or school of thought as we need and profession emerge.
The term Interdisciplinary is applied within education and training pedagogies to discribe Studies that use methods and insight of several established discipline or traditional field of history.
Cultural Studies is not necessarily about Literature in the traditional sense or even about "art", in their introduction to Cultural Studies, editors Lawrence Grossberg , Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler emphasize that intellectual promise of cultural studies lies in it's attempts to "cut across diverse social and political interests and address many of the struggle within the current scene."
Intellectual works are not limited by their owns borders as single texts , historical problems , or disciplines , and critic's own personal connection to what is being analyzed may also be described.
A curse of Disciplinarity
' A challenge in the other discipline always seems 'easy' because we are not hindered by knowledge.'
- Barend Mons
2. Politically Engaged.
Cultural critics see themselves as oppositional not only within but their own discipline but to many of the power structures of society at large.
They question inequalities within power structure and seek to discover models for restructuring relationship among dominant and minority or subaltern discourses.
Generally the meaning and individual subjectivity are culturally constructed , then can thus be reconstructed.
Such a motion, taken place Philosophical extreme, denies the autonomy of the individual, whatever an actual person or a character in Literature rebuttal of the traditional humanistic. Grate man or Grate book.
3. Cultural Studies Denise the Separation of high and low or Elite and Popular Culture.
"I came here to get a little Culture."
Cultural critics today works to transfer the term culture to include mass culture, whatever popular, folk, or urban.
Jean Baudrilland and Andreas Huyseen, the cultural critics who argue that after the worlds second world war the dictinction among high, law and mass culture collapsed, and they cute other theorists.
4. Cultural Studies analyze not only the Cultural work, but the means of production.
How to produce the things?
Marxist critic have long recognized the importance of such literary question as these.
Who supports a given artist?
Who published his or her work/ books?
How are the books distributed?
Who buy books?
Those questions have by Marxist critic. Janice Radway's study of the American romance , novel and it's readers, Reading the Romance, Women, Patriarchy and Popular literature, which demonstrates the textual effects of the publishing industry's decisions about books that will minimize it's financial risks.
Cultural Studies this joins subjectivity. Culture in relation to individual lives with engagement a direct approach to attecking social ills. Though Cultural Studies practitioner deny "humanism" or the "the humanities" as universal categories, they strive for what they might call "social reason." Often resembles the goals and values of humanistic and democratic ideals.
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