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Learning objectives:
- Students can describe the historical developments in the field of Cultural Studies.
- Students will refresh their memory of sociological theories and describe similarities and
differences between the field of cultural studies and sociology.
- Students can appoint concepts important for Cultural Studies.
- Students can place the used textbook in its historical tradition.
CULTURAL STUDIES:
Research, ethnicity, cultural sociology: many sociological examples. Meaning-making pro
Presentation and representating.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
1964: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Birmingham (CCCS), by Richard Hoggart.
Attracted a wide range of researchers from all over the world.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH OF BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL:
1. Research focusing on literary, historical-philosophical and sociological questions.
2. trans-disciplinary.
Dificult to find a research method for the certain research.
3. interest in the unconventional, the marginalized, the ordinary and the repressed.
4. Reaction to 'politically naive' traditional disciplines.
5. focusing on issues that were elsewhere thought of as trivial.
6. focus on ordinary culture of the working class.
Different ways to look at culture, from different perspectives, different influences and dif
aspects of culture. Representation as starting point.
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