Four Goals of Cultural Studies

Four Goals of Cultural Studies

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  Four Goals Interdisciplinary Studies Politically engaged Separation of high andlow or Popular culture Means of Production
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  It is relatedto 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 studiesis not necessarily about literature in the traditional sense or even about “ art ” , in their Introduction to Cultural studies , editors Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula Treichler emphasizes that Intellectual promise of cultural studies lies in its attempts to “ cut across diverse social and political interests and address many of the struggles within the current scene ”  Intellectual works are not limited by their own borders as single texts , historical problems , or disciplines, and critic’s own personal connection to what is being analyzed may also be described.
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  Cultural studies ispolitically engaged  Cultural critics see themselves as oppositional not only within their own discipline but to many of the power structures of society at large.  They question inequalities within power structure and seek to discover models for restructuring relationship among dominant and minority or subaltern discourses .
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   Generally themeaning and individual subjectivity are culturally constructed , they can thus be reconstructed .  Such a notion , taken place philosophical extreme , denies the autonomy of the individual, whether an actual person or a character in literature rebuttal of the traditional humanistic great man or great book .
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  Studies Cultural deniesthe separation of high and low or elite and popular culture  Cultural critics today works to transfer the term culture to include mass culture, whether popular, folk , or urban.  Jean Baudrillard and Andreas Huyseen , the cultural critic who argue that after the worlds second world war the distinction among high, low and mass culture collapsed , and they cite other theorists.
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  Cultural studies analyzenot only the cultural work, but also the means of production  How to produce the things ?  Marxist critic have long recognized the importance of such literary questions as these  Who supports a given artist ?  Who publishes his or her books, and how are the books distributed ?  Who buys books ?