Meaning and Feature of Cultural studies

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