THEORIES OF CULTURAL STUDIES (ITB 6100) PhD in Cultural ...
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1 THEORIES OF CULTURAL STUDIES (ITB 6100) PhD in Cultural Studies Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Yıldız Technical University Kerem Karaosmanoğlu (Ph.D) e-mail: [email protected] tel: (212) 383 4496 room: AZ-03 office hours: by appointment classroom: online.yildiz.edu.tr web: keremblog.net Course Description: This course presents the students with an overview of classical and contemporary theories in cultural studies. The evolution of social & cultural theory from the eighteenth century onwards will be analyzed with reference to major themes during the term. The aim will be to understand and make sense of ‘cultural theory’ together with ‘social theory’ that seems to follow a different historical and thematic trajectory when compared to political theory, sociological theory or history of philosophy. During the lecture we will attempt to comprehend the views of major theorists, their relation to other theories and the way in which certain concepts are covered and analyzed in their theories. Among the major themes that are relevant to our discussion with regards to social & cultural theory will be society, community, identity, difference, subjectivity, individual, culture, structure, agency, modernity, postmodernity and consumption. As this is a must course for the PhD program it is an essential obligation and extremely important for the students to do all readings for each week before coming to class. All students are expected to attend each session and participate as much as possible to the discussions in class. Grading System: Final Exam: 40% Midterm Exam: 40% Presentation: 20% Midterm Exam: Midterm Exam will take place in the middle of the term with 2 or 3 questions to be answered in 2 hours.
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THEORIESOFCULTURALSTUDIES(ITB6100)PhDinCulturalStudiesDepartmentofHumanities&SocialSciencesYıldızTechnicalUniversityKeremKaraosmanoğlu(Ph.D)e-mail:[email protected]:(212)3834496room:AZ-03officehours:byappointmentclassroom:online.yildiz.edu.trweb:keremblog.netCourseDescription:Thiscoursepresentsthestudentswithanoverviewofclassicalandcontemporarytheoriesinculturalstudies.Theevolutionofsocial&culturaltheoryfromtheeighteenthcenturyonwardswillbeanalyzedwithreferencetomajorthemesduringtheterm.Theaimwillbetounderstandandmakesenseof‘culturaltheory’togetherwith‘socialtheory’thatseemstofollowadifferenthistoricalandthematictrajectorywhencomparedtopoliticaltheory,sociologicaltheoryorhistoryofphilosophy.Duringthelecturewewillattempttocomprehendtheviewsofmajortheorists,theirrelationtoothertheoriesandthewayinwhichcertainconceptsarecoveredandanalyzedintheirtheories.Amongthemajorthemesthatarerelevanttoourdiscussionwithregardstosocial&culturaltheorywillbesociety,community,identity,difference,subjectivity,individual,culture,structure,agency,modernity,postmodernityandconsumption.AsthisisamustcourseforthePhDprogramitisanessentialobligationandextremelyimportantforthestudentstodoallreadingsforeachweekbeforecomingtoclass.Allstudentsareexpectedtoattendeachsessionandparticipateasmuchaspossibletothediscussionsinclass.GradingSystem:FinalExam:40%MidtermExam:40%Presentation:20%MidtermExam:MidtermExamwilltakeplaceinthemiddleofthetermwith2or3questionstobeansweredin2hours.
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FinalExam:Finalexamwilltakeplaceattheendofthetermandwillbeconductedinopen-booktake-homeformat.Thestudentsareexpectedtoanalyseandarticulatethetheoriesthathavebeencoveredduringtheterm.Presentation:Eachstudentwillpickupatheory/theoristatthebeginningofthetermandmakeapresentationofonespecificarticleoracombinationofmorethanonearticle.Themaximumdurationforeachpresentationwillbe30minutes.Theaimwillbetoclearlysummarizeandreviewtherelevantreadingsinthelightofallwhatwehaveseeninclasssofar.
WeeklySchedule:
Week1–CulturalStudiesandTheory:AnIntroduction
KeyThinker:Hall
DC,CC,K
Week2-BritishCulturalism
KeyThinkers:Arnold,Leavis,Thompson,Williams&Hoggart
ICS(11-136),CTPC(18-60),CCT(1-56),CAS(xi-xviii),PCR(25-32),UL
Week3-ClassicalTheoriesI
KeyThinkers:Marx&Durkheim
WB,MVSI,ST(43-75),PCR(89-95),ST(76-111),WB(236-82),SHST(97-127)
Week4-ClassicalTheoriesII
KeyThinkers:Weber&Simmel
CTPM(22-36),WB(305-72),WB(205-35),ST(112-188)
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Week5-TheHeritageofHermeneuticsandSocialAction
KeyThinkers:Dilthey,Weber,Gadamer&Goffman
SHST(128-170),RGT(21-39),CTI(58-73)
Week6-CriticalTheory
KeyThinkers:Adorno,Horkheimer,Benjamin,Freud,Fromm,Marcuse&Habermas
CST(17-52),HST(179-200),CT(49-68),RGT(121-139),BC(228-46),CSR(31-41),PCR(103-8),PCR(96-102)
Week7-AfterMarx:IdeologyandHegemony
KeyThinkers:Gramsci
SHST(194-224),CTI(37-57),ICS(190-204),GU(161-74),CD(411-41)
Week8-Structuralism&Poststructuralism
KeyThinkers:Saussure,Levi-Strauss,Barthes,Althusser,Lacan&Derrida
CTPC(116-139),CCT(92-127),BT(39-80),CTI(97-132),IC(67-90)
Week9-CriticalModernity:History,Subjectivity&Power
KeyThinkers:Foucault&Bourdieu
RGT(65-82),CT(123-40),BC(207-27),FR(3-29),CTI(133-150),CST(122-154),CT(141-58),BC(274-309)
Week10–MidtermExam
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Week11–WhatisCulturalStudies?
KeyThinkers:Hall,Grossberg,Morley,Miller&Garnham
CSR(492-503),LG,TP,CSIQ(121-37),CD(24-45)
Week12-TheBirminghamSchool,CulturalStudies&Beyond
KeyThinkers:Hall,Hebdige,Morley,Willis&Gilroy
CTI(151-166),CT(69-82),ICS(137-189),PCR(285-93),PCR(355-71),PC(284-93),NSTR(427-34)
Week13–CulturalStudies&CulturalTheory:DiscussionandEvaluation
TMCS-1,TMCS-2,K
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ReadingList
BCBarrySmart,“MichelFoucault”inTheBlackwellCompaniontoMajorContemporarySocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer,ed.)Oxford:Blackwell,2003,207-227.
BCWilliamOuthwaite,“JürgenHabermas”,inTheBlackwellCompaniontoMajorContemporarySocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer,ed.)Oxford:Blackwell,2003,228-246.
BCCraigCalhoun,“PierreBourdieu”inTheBlackwellCompaniontoMajorContemporarySocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer,ed.)Oxford:Blackwell,2003,274-309.
BTPeterBarry,BeginningTheory:AnIntroductiontoLiteraryandCulturalTheory.2002.
CASRaymondWilliams,CultureandSociety:1780-1950.NY:Anchor,1960.
CCCircuitofCulture(Chart).
CCTAndrewMilnerandJeffBrowitt,ContemporaryCulturalTheory:AnIntroduction(thirdedition).London:Routledge,2002.
CDStuartHall,“TheProblemofIdeology:MarxismwithoutGuarantees”inStuartHall:CriticalDialoguesinCulturalStudies(DavidMorleyandKuan-HsingChen,eds.).London:Routledge,1996,24-45.
CDStuartHall,“Gramsci’sRelevancefortheStudyofRaceandEthnicity”inStuartHall:CriticalDialoguesinCulturalStudies(DavidMorleyandKuan-HsingChen,eds.).London:Routledge,1996,411-41.
CSIQDavidMorley,“TheoreticalOrthodoxies:Textualism,Constructivismandthe'NewEthnography'inCulturalStudies”inCulturalStudiesinQuestion(MarjorieFergusonandPeterGolding,eds.).London:Sage,1997,121-37.
CSRTheodorW.Adorno&MaxHorkheimer,“TheCultureIndustry:EnlightenmentasMassDeception”inTheCulturalStudiesReader2ndedition(SimonDuring,ed.)London:Routledge,1999,31-41.
CSRNicholasGarnham,“PoliticalEconomyandCulturalStudies”inTheCulturalStudiesReader2ndedition(SimonDuring,ed.)London:Routledge,1999,492-503.
CSTAnthonyElliott,ContemporarySocialTheory:AnIntroduction.London:Routledge,2009.
CTDouglasKellner,“TheFrankfurtSchool”inCulturalTheory:Classical&ContemporaryPositions(TimEdwards,ed.)London:Sage,2007,49-68.
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CTChrisRojek,“StuartHallandtheBirminghamSchool”inCulturalTheory:Classical&ContemporaryPositions(TimEdwards,ed.)London:Sage,2007,69-82.
CTTimMayandJasonPowell,“Foucault:InterpretiveAnalyticsandtheConstitutionoftheSocial”inCulturalTheory:Classical&ContemporaryPositions(TimEdwards,ed.)London:Sage,2007,123-140.
CTDerekRobbins,“FramingBourdieu”inCulturalTheory:Classical&ContemporaryPositions(TimEdwards,ed.)London:Sage,2007,141-158.
CTIPhilipSmith,CulturalTheory:AnIntroduction.Oxford:Blackwell,2001.
CTPCJohnStorey,CulturalTheoryandPopularCulture:AnIntroduction.London:Routledge,2012.
CTPMAlanSwingewood,CulturalTheoryandtheProblemofModernity.NewYork:Macmillan,1998.
DCPaulduGay,StuartHall,KeithNegus,etal.,DoingCulturalStudies:TheStoryoftheSonyWalkman.London:Sage,1997).
FRPaulRabinow,“Introduction”inTheFoucaultReader(PaulRabinow,ed.)NewYork:Vintage,2010,3-29.
GUStuartHall,TheHardRoadtoRenewal:ThatcherismandtheCrisisoftheLeft,London:Verso,1988,161-74.
HSTCraigCalhounandJosephKaraganis,“CriticalTheory”inHandbookofSocialTheory(GeorgeRitzer&BarrySmart,eds.)London:Sage,2003,179-200.
ICNickCouldry,InsideCulture:Re-imaginingtheMethodofCulturalStudies.London:Sage,2007.
ICSDavidWalton,IntroducingCulturalStudies:LearningThroughPractice.London:Sage,2008.
KRaymondWilliams,Keywords:AVocabularyofCultureandSociety,NewEdition.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2015
LGLawrenceGrossberg,“CulturalStudiesvs.PoliticalEconomy:IsAnybodyElseBoredwiththisDebate?”,Colloquy,March1995,72-81.
MVSIPeterSinger,Marx:AVeryShortIntroduction.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress,2000.
NSTRPaulGilroy,“PostcolonialMelancholia”inTheNewSocialTheoryReader(StevenSeidman&Jeffrey.C.Alexander,eds.)London:Routledge,2008,427-434.
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PCPaulWillis,“TheMotor-BikeandMotor-BikeCulture”inPopularCulture:Past&Present(B.Waites,T.Bennett&G.Martin’eds.)London:Routledge,2013,284-293.
PCRRaymondWilliams,“‘Culture’and‘Masses’”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,25-32.
PCRF.R.Leavis,“MassCivilizationandMinorityCulture”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,33-38.
PCRKarlMarx,“TheFetishismofCommoditiesandtheSecretThereof”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,89-95.
PCRWalterBenjamin,‘TheWorkofArtintheAgeofMechanicalReproduction”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,96-102.
PCRTheodorW.Adorno,“CultureIndustryReconsidered”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,103-108.
PCRStuartHall,“Whatisthis‘Black’inBlackPopularCulture?”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,285-293.
PCRDickHebdige,“Subculture”inPopularCulture:AReader(RaifordGuinsandOmayraZaragozaCruz,eds.)London:Sage,2005,355-371.
RGTWilliamOuthwaite,“Hans-GeorgGadamer”inTheReturnofGrandTheoryintheHumanSciences(QuentinSkinner,ed.)Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1994,21-39.
RGTMarkPhilp,“MichelFoucault”inTheReturnofGrandTheoryintheHumanSciences(QuentinSkinner,ed.)Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1994,65-82.
RGTAnthonyGiddens,“JürgenHabermas”inTheReturnofGrandTheoryintheHumanSciences(QuentinSkinner,ed.)Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1994,121-139.
SHSTAlanSwingewood,AShortHistoryofSociologicalThought(secondedition).London:Macmillan,1991.
STGeorgeRitzer,SociologicalTheory(8thedt).NewYork:McGraw-Hill,2011.
TMCS-1TobyMilleronCulturalStudies(Interview)
TMCS-2TobyMilleronCulturalStudies,“CS:WhatItIsandWhatItIsn’t”
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TPStuartHall,“CulturalStudies:TwoParadigms”,Media,Culture&Society,2,1980,57-72.
ULRichardHoggart,TheUsesofLiteracy.London,Penguin,1958.
WBRobertJ.Antonio,“KarlMarx”inTheWiley-BlackwellCompaniontoMajorSocialTheorists:VolumeIClassicalSocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer&JeffreyStepnisky,eds.)Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell,2011,115-164.
WBLawrenceA.Scaff,“GeorgSimmel”inTheWiley-BlackwellCompaniontoMajorSocialTheorists:VolumeIClassicalSocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer&JeffreyStepnisky,eds.)Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell,2011,205-235.
WBTaraMilbrandtandFrankPearce,“ÉmileDurkheim”inTheWiley-BlackwellCompaniontoMajorSocialTheorists:VolumeIClassicalSocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer&JeffreyStepnisky,eds.)Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell,2011,236-282.
WBStephenKalberg,“MaxWeber”inTheWiley-BlackwellCompaniontoMajorSocialTheorists:VolumeIClassicalSocialTheorists(GeorgeRitzer&JeffreyStepnisky,eds.)Oxford:Wiley-Blackwell,2011,305-372.
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