cultural studies

•Topic: cultural studies

• Name: Gopi pipavat• Class: M.A SEM-2• Roll no : 27• Submitted to: Department of English M.K

Bhavnagar university

•What is cultural studies?• What is cultural study• Culture includes the organization of production,

structure of the family .the structure of institutions which express or govern social relationships , the characteristic forms through which members of the society communicate.

• The subject of cultural studies

• It does not have a clearly defined subject area.

• It is used to describe and study a whole range of practices.

• It also lacks its own principles, theories or methods.

•How does it function?•It functions by borrowing freely from social science disciplines and all branches of humanities, sociology, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, etc.

•Characteristics of cultural • It aims to examine its subject matter in terms

of cultural practices and their relation to power.

• Its objective is to understand culture in all its complex forms and to analyses the social and political context within which it manifest itself.

• Cont.…• It aims to understand and change

the structures of dominance everywhere but in industrial capitalist societies in particular.

• How to do cultural study?• A major concept is sign.it has 3 basic

characteristics:

It has a concrete form It refers to something other than itself It can be recognized by most people

as a sign

• E.g. The idea or sign ‘Indian’ is given a specific ideological shape in the way ‘ Indians’ have been represented in colonial literature.

•The origin of cultural study• It derives from the cccs ( center for contemporary cultural study) at the univ, of Birmingham established in 1964•The founding fathers are: Richards Hogg art, Raymond williams,E.P Thompson, Stuart hall•They concern with the changing of English cultural life.

• Major issues in cultural study • Identity and difference• Representation• Spaces and places• High culture/ popular culture• Subject, bodies, selves• consumption

•Culture today:• ‘For cultural studies today’ cultural objects are

simultaneously events and experiences, produced out of, and thrown back in to, a social force field constituted unevenly by power flows, status hierarchies and opportunities”

•The academic setting • In Asia , culture is studied largely in

language or science departments.• “Traditional topics of cultural studies

are less apparent in third world”• Countries because questions and

concerns about westernization, modernization, and autonomous national identity and nation- building are dominant in field.

Thank you