ISBN:
9781405858434
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1021 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Introducing Cultural Studies
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
A rapidly changing world - in part driven by huge transformations in technology and mobility - means we all encounter shifting cultures, and new cultural and social interactions daily. Powerful forces such as consumption and globalization exert an enormous influence on all walks and levels of life across both space and time. Cultural Studies remains at the vanguard of consideration of these issues.This completely revised second edition of Introducing Cultural Studies gives a systematic overview of the concepts, theories, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplina
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of key influence boxes; List of defining concept boxes; Preface: a user's guide; Acknowledgements; Part 1 CULTURAL THEORY; 1 Culture and cultural studies; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 What is culture?; Culture with a big 'C'; Culture as a 'way of life'; Process and development; 1.2 Issues and problems in the study of culture; How do people become part of a culture?; How does cultural studies interpret what things mean?; How does cultural studies understand the past?; Can other cultures be understood?
Description / Table of Contents:
How can we understand the relationships between cultures?Why are some cultures and cultural forms valued more highly than others?; What is the relationship between culture and power?; How is 'culture as power' negotiated and resisted?; How does culture shape who we are?; Summary examples; 1.3 Theorising culture; Culture and social structure; Social structure and social conflict: class, gender and 'race'; Culture in its own right and as a force for change; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 Culture, communication and representation; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 The organisation of meaning
Description / Table of Contents:
Spoken, written and visual textsCommunication and meaning; Structuralism and the order of meaning; Hermeneutics and intepretation; Political economy, ideology and meaning; Poststructuralism and the patterns of meaning; Postmodernism and semiotics; 2.2 Language, representation, power and inequality; Language and power; Language and class; Language, race and ethnicity; Language and gender; 2.3 Mass communication and representation; The mass media and representation; Audiences and reception; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Culture, power, globalisation and inequality; 3.0 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1 Understanding globalisationGlobalisation: cultural and economic change; Theorising about globalisation; Globalisation and inequality; 3.2 Theorising about culture, power and inequality; Marx and Marxism; Weber, status and inequality; Caste societies; 3.3 Legitimating inequality; Ideology as common sense: hegemony; Ideology as incorporation: the Frankfurt School; Habitus; 3.4 Culture and the production and reproduction of inequality; Class; 'Race' and ethnicity; Gender; Age; Structural and local conceptions of power; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Researching culture; 4.0 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1 Content and thematic analysisQuantitative content analysis: gangsta rap lyrics; Thematic analysis; 4.2 Semiotics as a method of analysis; Semiotics of advertising; A semiotic analysis of a sophisticated advertisement; 4.3 Ethnography; 4.4 Conclusion; Part 2 CULTURAL STUDIES; 5 Topographies of culture: geography, meaning and power; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 What is cultural geography?; 5.2 Placenames: interaction, power and representation; 5.3 Landscape representation; 5.4 National identity; 5.5 Discourses of Orientalism; 5.6 Mobility, hybridity and heterogeneity; 5.7 Performing identities
Description / Table of Contents:
5.8 Living in a material world
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
