Four Goals of Cultural Studies
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Name : Ravi Rajyaguru Roll No : 28 M.A : Sem -2 Paper : (8) Cultural Studies Enrolment No : PG15101032 Email id.: [email protected] Submitted To : Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Four Goals of Cultural Studies
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Name : Ravi RajyaguruRoll No : 28M.A : Sem -2Paper : (8) Cultural StudiesEnrolment No : PG15101032Email id.: [email protected] To : Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Four Goals of Cultural Studies
INTRODUCTION
As far as cultural study is concerned , it has border meaning because we see from various perspective then an individual can know what actually it lies in the meaning.
Generally it means way of living life or it can also be said that the life style of people and Matthew Arnold also quote about culture that it is a march towards perfection.
What is Cultural Studies ?
Cultural studies is an innovative interdisciplinary field of research and teaching that investigates the ways in which “culture” creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations and power.
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Interdisciplinary it 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.
Cultural Studies transcends confines of Particular discipline such as literary criticism or history
It is related to an interdisciplinary field, which is an 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 describe studies that use methods and insight of several established discipline or traditional field of history.
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cultural studies involves scrutinizing the cultural phenomenon of a text – for example Italian opera, a Latino telenovela, the architectural styles of prisons, body piercing and drawing conclusion about the change in textual phenomena over time.
Cultural studies is not necessarily about literature in the traditional sense or even about “ art ”.
Cultural studies is politically engaged
• cultural critics see themselves as “ oppositional” not only within their own disciplines but to many of the power structures of society at large.
• They question inequalities within power structures and seek to discover models for restructuring relationship among dominant and “minority” or “subaltern” discourses.
Cultural Studies denies the Separation of High and Low or elite and Popular Culture
Cultural critics today work to transfer the term culture to include mass culture, whether popular , folk , or urban.
Following theorists Jean Baudrillard and Andreas Huyssen, cultural critics argue that after world war II the distinctions among high , low and mass culture collapsed , and they cite other theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu and Dick Hebdige on how “good taste” only reflects prevailing social, economic and political power bases.
cultural studies analyzes not only the cultural work , but also the means of production.
who supports a given artist ?
Who publishes his or her books, and how are these books distributed?
Who buys books?
Marxist critics have long recognized the importance of such paraliterary questions as these
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Though cultural studies practitioners deny “humanism“ or “the humanities” as universal categories, they strive for what they might call “social reason”, which often resembles the goals and values of humanistic and democratic ideals.
