Ravi Rajyaguru submitted a paper on cultural studies to the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University. The paper discusses the four main goals of cultural studies: 1) it takes an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional boundaries; 2) it scrutinizes cultural phenomena and draws conclusions about changes over time; 3) it is politically engaged and questions inequalities in power structures; and 4) it denies separating high and low or elite and popular culture.

1. Name : Ravi Rajyaguru
Roll No : 28
M.A : Sem -2
Paper : (8) Cultural Studies
Enrolment No : PG15101032
Email id.: rajyagururavi24@gmail.com
Submitted To : Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Four Goals of Cultural Studies

2.  As far as cultural study is concerned , it has
border meaning because we see from various
perspective then an individual can know
what actually it lies in the meaning.
 Generally it means way of living life or it can
also be said that the life style of people and
Matthew Arnold also quote about culture
that it is a march towards perfection.

3. Cultural studies is an innovative interdisciplinary
field of research and teaching that investigates the
ways in which “culture” creates and transforms
individual experiences, everyday life, social
relations and power.
Culture
Cultural
Criticism Cultural Studies

4. Four
Goals
Interdisciplin
ary Studies
Politically
engaged
Separation of
high and low
or Popular
culture
Means of
Production

6. 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.

7.  cultural studies involves scrutinizing the
cultural phenomenon of a text – for example
Italian opera, a Latino telenovela, the
architectural styles of prisons, body piercing
and drawing conclusion about the change in
textual phenomena over time.
 Cultural studies is not necessarily about
literature in the traditional sense or even
about “ art ”.

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

9. Cultural Studies denies the Separation of
High and Low or elite and Popular Culture
 Cultural critics today work to transfer the
term culture to include mass culture, whether
popular , folk , or urban.
 Following theorists Jean Baudrillard and
Andreas Huyssen, cultural critics argue that after
world war II the distinctions among high , low and
mass culture collapsed , and they cite other theorists
such as Pierre Bourdieu and Dick Hebdige on how
“good taste” only reflects prevailing social, economic
and political power bases.

10. cultural studies analyzes not only the cultural work ,
but also the means of production.
who supports a given artist ?
Who publishes his or her books, and how are these
books distributed?
Who buys books?
Marxist critics have long recognized the
importance of such paraliterary questions as these

11.  Though cultural studies
practitioners deny “humanism“ or “the
humanities” as universal categories, they
strive for what they might call “social
reason”, which often resembles the goals and
values of humanistic and democratic ideals.