Stuart Hall outlines two paradigms in cultural studies: culturalism and structuralism. Culturalism, associated with Raymond Williams and E.P. Thompson, sees culture as the lived experiences and practices of social groups. Structuralism, associated with Levi-Strauss and Althusser, sees culture and experience as the effect of underlying symbolic structures and frameworks. Hall discusses the emergence of cultural studies and how structuralism interrupted the cultural strand, creating stark contrasts around the role of experience.

1. Master ProgramIntroduction to CultureDr. BOUZEKRICultural studies: two paradigms STUART HALL Submitted by: Mohsine WAHIB

2. Soufiane ADRANEFrom Media Culture and Society Volume 2, Number 1, January 1980.

3. Outline Introduction

4. Stuart Hall

5. Cultural Studies

6. Two paradigms:

7. Culturalism

8. Structuralism

9. Summary Stuart HallStuart Hall(born 3 February 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was an early and influential contributor to the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.

10. Cultural StudiesCultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory, which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, media theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in various societies. Cultural studies researchers often concentrate on how a particular phenomenon relates to matters of ideology, nationality, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, and/or gender.

11. What is Cultural Studies?Study of relations between social relations and meanings (how social divisions are made meaningful)

12. Culture is terrain on which ideological representations of class, gender, race are enforced, and contested by social groups validating their experience.

13. Hegemony

14. operates in the realm of representations and consciousness

15. implies power inequality in different segments of society

16. naturalizes a class ideology and renders it in the form of common sense

17. exercised through ‘authority,’ not physical force