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THEORIESOFCULTURALSTUDIES(ITB6100)PhDinCulturalStudiesDepartmentofHumanities&SocialSciencesYıldızTechnicalUniversityKeremKaraosmanoğlu(Ph.D)e-mail:keremk@me.comtel:(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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