here is my presentation of paper no. 8

1.  Name: Gausvami Surbhi A.
 Sem: 2
 Paper: Cultural studies
 Paper No: 8
 Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad,
Department of English
MKBU university
 Enrollment No: 2069108420170008
 Email id: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com
 Roll No: 24
 Batch year: 2016-18

3.  “Culture refers to the cumulative
deposit of knowledge,
experience, beliefs, values,
attitudes, meanings, hierarchies,
religion, notion of time,
concepts of universe, acquired
by group of people.”
 “Culture is communication and
communication is the culture”
 “Culture is generally considered
to be the tradition of people that
are transmitted from generation
to generation”

6.  Culture is the mode of generating meanings
and ideas
 This ‘mode’ is negotiation over which
meanings are valid.
 Meanings are governed by power
relationship.
 Elite culture controls the meanings.
 Non-elite views on the life and art are
rejected as ‘testless’ or ‘useless’.

7.  Culture is not natural thing but it is produced
 The production and consumption of culture is
linked to:
 (1) Matters of class
 (2) Matters of economy
 (3) Matters of representation

8.  (1) Made
 (2) Marketed
 (3) Consumed

9.  Popular culture is the way of
life in which and by which the
dominant society lives.
 Ray Brown: “ Popular culture
is the everyday culture of a
group, large or small of
people”
 Popular culture is the voice of
the people, their practice,
likes and dislikes, the
lifeblood, of their daily
existence”
 Popular culture is the culture
of masses.


10.  Elite culture is related to
power.
 “ power is the ability to
make others do what you
would them to do”
 Way of life is culture who is
in power.
 “ who decide that
Shakespeare must be read
but not Chetan Bhagat”
 “Father of nation”
 ‘National song, national
flag, power politics’

11.  Physical Force
 Wealth
 State action
 Social norms
 Ides
 Numbers