Four Goals of Cultural Studies

2. Four
Goals
Interdisciplinary
Studies
Politically
engaged
Separation of
high and low or
Popular culture
Means of
Production

4. It is related to an interdisciplinary field, which is an organizational
unit that crosses traditional boundaries between academic
discipline or school of thought as we need and profession
emerge.
The term Interdisciplinary is applied within education and
training pedagogies to describe studies that use methods and
insight of several established discipline or traditional field of
history.

5.  Cultural studies is not necessarily about literature in the
traditional sense or even about “ art ” , in their Introduction
to Cultural studies , editors Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson
and Paula Treichler emphasizes that Intellectual promise of
cultural studies lies in its attempts to “ cut across diverse
social and political interests and address many of the
struggles within the current scene ”
 Intellectual works are not limited by their own borders as
single texts , historical problems , or disciplines, and critic’s
own personal connection to what is being analyzed may also
be described.

7. Cultural studies is politically engaged
 Cultural critics see themselves
as oppositional not only within
their own discipline but to
many of the power structures
of society at large.
 They question inequalities
within power structure and seek
to discover models for
restructuring relationship
among dominant and minority
or subaltern discourses .

8.  Generally the meaning and individual subjectivity are
culturally constructed , they can thus be reconstructed .
 Such a notion , taken place philosophical extreme , denies
the autonomy of the individual, whether an actual person or
a character in literature rebuttal of the traditional humanistic
great man or great book .

10. Studies Cultural denies the separation of
high and low or elite and popular culture
 Cultural critics today works to transfer
the term culture to include mass
culture, whether popular, folk , or
urban.
 Jean Baudrillard and Andreas Huyseen
, the cultural critic who argue that
after the worlds second world war the
distinction among high, low and mass
culture collapsed , and they cite other
theorists.

11. Cultural studies analyze not only the cultural
work, but also the means of production
 How to produce the things ?
 Marxist critic have long
recognized the importance of
such literary questions as these
 Who supports a given artist ?
 Who publishes his or her
books, and how are the books
distributed ?
 Who buys books ?