Cultural Studies and the Study of Cultures
Cultural Studies and the Study of Cultural Construction
The idea of cultural construction
- The things, objects, categories that we accept as natural are nothing but cultural constructions
- e.g., Kids
- Characteristics of cultural constructions
- Discursive
- Time-space relativity
- Contingent
- Arbitrary
- Incoherent and inconsistent
- Continually changing
- Contextualized
- Culture vs. Nature
- Naturalization of cultural construction
Why study cultural construction?
- Cultural constructions are our common sense, our basic framework of our thinking and action
- Cultural constructions are roots of inequality and injustice
- e.g., gender relationships
- Formal equality: legal provisions, constitutional rights, economic opportunities etc.
- Cultural constraints: stereotypes, cultural Ideal Types, cultural practices in gender relationships etc.
- The idea of Critical Cultural Studies
- Criticizing cultural constructions as a way to criticize inequality and injustice
Cultural Studies and Media Studies:
- The mass media as the major site for cultural construction/representation
- The study of popular culture, e.g., Hollywood movies
- The study of news and journalism, e.g., how particular social groups are represented on the news
- Three part of studying media representation:
- The study of production
- The study of texts
- The study of reception
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