Cultural Studies

1. Monday
Revision 2 Cultural Studies

2. Statements
 Cultural studies referred theory and practice.
 CCCS stands for The Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies
 The Tea Party make up about 10 percent supporters of the American
population.
 Tony Bennet offers his element of a definition.
 CCCS located in the UK.
 Alan D. Sokal wrote a parody essay in 1996.
 A large company or group of companies Corporation.
 Transgressing the boundaries written by Alan D Sokal.
 T.V programme compared with Sokal affair Candid Camera
 World is socially constructed and represented by us in meaningful ways.
 Alan D Sokal compared Cultural Studies with Quantum Gravity.
 Media Culture examples TV, Internet , Radio News Paper.4
 All the means of productions are the part of political economy which
practiced by Materialism.
 Non-reductionism means can not reduce.
 Cultural studies behaviors are different.
 The Planet (Earth) is the representation of the natural or geographical
world.

3. Choose the right column for given
type of Cultures.
High Culture Middle Culture Low Culture
Shakespeare, Daily news paper, WWE, Gossip magazines, American Idol,
CNN, BBC, Opera, Economist magazines, public museums, art galleries,
comedy shows, baseball, Jazz, channel perfume, Harry Potter.

4. Match
 Choose the category of culture from word Bank
then match with appropriate meaning.
 High Culture Middle Culture Low
Culture

 ............................................. High quality things but
less in practice we didn’t spend much time.
 ………………………………We spent much time
related with education specially art.
 ............................................... Less well educated we
spent most of our time.


5. Answering Questions
 What is non-reductionism?
 What is Media Culture? Explain its importance.
 How we can represent our culture?
 Define Ideology and Hegemony?
 The philosopher Roger Scruton claim both
cultural studies as an Ideal and as reality.
 Think Then Answer:
 What do you think as an Ideal?
 What do you think as a reality?

6. Difference
Culture Cultural Studies
 1  1