This paper discusses the definition and key aspects of culture and cultural studies. It defines culture as the abstract, learned, and shared rules and standards that generate behavior and understanding. Cultural studies investigates how culture creates and transforms individual experiences and social relations. Some key characteristics of culture outlined are that it is learned and transmitted between generations, shared and symbolic, adaptive and tends toward integration over time as it accumulates and changes. The paper concludes that culture is essential to society and what distinguishes humans from animals.

1. Paper: The Cultural Studies
• Name : Chauhan Hetal M.
• Paper no : 8
• Unit : 1, Cultural Studies
• Topic :What is Culture, Definition,Features and
Characteristics Of Culture
• Roll no : 13
• Email : hetalchauhan137@gmail.com
• Batch : M.A, Sem-2, 2018
• Submitted To : M.K. Bhavnagar University,
Department Of English

2.  What Is Culture
• Culture is the
abstract , learned,
shared rules
standards for
generating behavior
and understanding
experience

4. Definition Of Cultural Studies
• “Cultural Studies is an
innovative interdisciplinary
field of research and
teaching that investigates
the ways in which
“Culture” creates and
transform individaul
experiences, everyday,
social relations and
power.”
•

5.  Basic Ideas
• Cultural studies is a reaction against the
approach of Media Effects studies in
academic media.
• Its central concern is Hegemony – that
is to say , the dominant ideologies in
society that secure the consent of the
governed to their subordination.

6. Characteristic Of Culture
 Culture is……
• Learned and acquired.
• Shared and transmitted
• Social and Symbolic
• Gratifies human needs
• Adaptive
• Tends toward integration
• Accumulative and changing
• Unconscious and Continuous
• Way of life

7. Conti……
• Symbolic and Dynamic
• Relative and Universal
• Shapes the way we think
• Responsive
• Linked with society

8. Conclusion
• Culture is centre of
society and without
culture no society can
even exist. It is the main
difference between
human beings and
animals. It is a heritage
transmitted from one
generation to another. It
includes all the ways and
behaviors is social life