ISBN:
9781317426011
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (584 p)
Edition:
3rd ed
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Longhurst, Brian, 1956 - Introducing cultural studies
DDC:
306.071
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Lehrbuch
;
Kulturwissenschaften
;
Kultursoziologie
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Visual tour -- List of Key Influence boxes -- List of Defining Concept boxes -- List of Spotlight boxes -- List of Example boxes -- Preface: A User's Guide -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's 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?
Abstract:
How does cultural studies interpret what things mean? -- How does cultural studies understand the past? -- Can other cultures be understood? -- 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? -- 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
Abstract:
Performing culture and becoming -- 1.4 Conclusion: What is cultural Studies? -- Further reading -- 2 Culture, communication and representation -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 The organisation of Meaning -- Spoken, written and visual texts -- Communication and meaning -- Structuralism and the order of meaning -- Hermeneutics and interpretation -- 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
Abstract:
Language and gender -- 2.3 Mass Communication and Representation -- The mass media and representation -- Mass media representations of gender -- 2.4 Audience Research and Reception Studies -- The behavioural paradigm -- The incorporation/resistance paradigm -- The spectacle/performance paradigm -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Further reading -- 3 Culture, power, globalisation and inequality -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Understanding Globalisation -- Globalisation: cultural and economic change -- Theorising about globalisation -- Globalisation and inequality
Abstract:
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 -- Further reading -- 4 Consumption, collaboration and digital media -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Consumption -- Defining consumption -- Theories of consumption
Abstract:
Consumer society
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
