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8 method methodology
This document summarizes key concepts and approaches in cultural studies research. It discusses the difference between method and methodology, with method referring to specific research techniques and methodology referring to the theoretical framework and assumptions. It emphasizes the importance of the researcher being conscious of their own biases and location. It also warns of issues like power dynamics when studying other communities. Overall, the document provides an overview of important considerations for conducting cultural studies research.
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- 1. Paper:8 Papername:TheCulturalStudies Preparedby: DrashtiMehta Rollno:8 PGEnrollmentNo:PG13101021 SeatNo:11310009 Sem:2 Emailid:drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.com Submittedto:Smt.S. B.Gardi, Departmentof English,Maharaja KrishnakumarsinghjiBhavnagar University. BhavnagarUniversity Bhavnagar(Gujarat-India)
- 2. Cultural Analysis Method • Methodis a technique employed by the researcher 1. To frame questions 2. To collect and organize data Methodology • Methodology is a critical approach used 1. to interpret the data collected
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- 4. Methodology refers to 1.The political position and the interpretive strategies used by the researchers. 2. This refers to the epistemological approach and concerns • The Philosophical approach • Political approach of the researchers. 3. It is a Critical approach used to interpret the data collected.
- 5. Women in Hindifilms Method Methodology To organize the question to be asked Identifying your own ideology To take decisions about the people to Interview ( Marxist, Feminist) (group, class composition, language) Reflecting on your experiences before framing the questions To prepare the Questions Interpreting the data collected based on your assumptions To conduct the Interviews
- 6. Cultural studies: Setof warnings • What gives us the authority to use people/ communities as resource material study their ‘Culture’? • What is the relationship between the Knower and the known? • What is the location from which the researcher is asking the question analysis?
- 7. Research ProcessIsolation During Research, the researcher isolates his orher location and politics Conscious The researcher has to be conscious of the Vantage point from which he is making his observation and Interpretati Reflexivity In social and critical theory, where the researcher reflects, own position, called “Reflexivity”.
- 8. Feminine Context I. Culturalstudies in the Euro-American contexts, connects empirical data and theorizing about this data with a wider feminist politics in the public realm. II. Feminist studies of film audiences link the representation of women in film media with larger issues of gender inequality in society. III. It is crucial- assumption – cultural artifacts can not be studied independent of the social and material context.
- 9. Films I. Representation ofWomen in Films are located in actual contexts of: • Gender Oppression, • Domestic Violence • Patriarchal Family structure • Economic Inequalities of the genders.
- 14. Two factors: haveto be kept in mind • The study should draw upon as large a number of ‘Sources’ for it to have any value. • This makes the study representative of a social group. • It should be, spread out over a period of time and context, if we need to make a generalized statement about cultural practices.
- 15. John Fiske: Oldfashioned Ethnography Researchers ‘immerses’ self in the cultural being studied unnecessary Because we mostly study our own cultures now
- 16. Contemporary time • CulturalStudies is most interested in the way meanings are made and the discourses within which these are made. • This involves a study of the process of representation and ‘texts’, seeing these as instrumental in the construction of identity. • Thus, Cultural studies investigate, intensively, the production of meaning rather than involving itself in extended observation.
- 17. Ann gray( 2003) •Three propositions:
- 18. Conclusion • This requireformulating the structure of the ‘Case Study’ • The Case study is a limited bounded system which is under observation for particular phenomena.
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