1) Introduction, or the definition of Cultural Studies:
- Culture is the proponent element of influencing education. It's an academic discipline. It combines politics economy, society, history, philosophy, ethnography and mass media.
2) What does Raymond Williams say about Cultural Studies?
- Cultural Studies, therefore, is a study of a particular way of life, where the people, period or a group.
3) Origin and Evaluation of Cultural Studies:
- Some of the influential scholars like Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall express their thoughts in a cultural studies. They tell it's difficult to make a proper date of Cultural Study's definition. Regarding that, Matthew Arnold expresses in his book Culture and Civilization, the exact date will not be, but it's around 1860s.
4) Major Thinkers and Their Theories:
- Richard Hoggart's "The Uses of Literary"
- Raymond Williams's "Culture and Society"
- Stuart Hall's "Situating Marx: Evaluations and Departures"
5) Acclaimed Theories of Cultural Studies:
- Leavisite Criticism: F.R. Leavis is the creator of Leavisite Criticism. Who writes the term in his book The Great Tradition.
- Frankfurt School Theory: it is a contrast theory of Leavisite Criticism. It was developed in the 1930s. It mainly focuses on the popular literature, music and magazines.
- Mass Communication Theory: it mainly exposes the visual studies, cyber culture and new technologies.
6) What are main workers of Cultural Studies in English literature:
- Richard Hoggart (1918-2014) was a British proponent on Cultural Studies in English literature. He serves in the Royal Artillery during the time of second world war.
What are the Important Works of Richard Hoggart:
- Auden (1951)
- The Uses of Literacy (1957)
- The Way we Live Now (1993)
- First and Last Things (1999)
- Raymond Williams (1921-1988) becomes one of the members of Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. He explores the concept of Culture through Eliot's notes, "The Definition of Culture."
What are the important Works by Raymond Williams, or What is the best book by Raymond Williams?
- Culture and Society, 1958
- The Long Revolution, 1961
- The Country and The City, 1973
- Marxism and Literature, 1977
- Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was a Jamaican born British Marxist sociologist. Hall succeeded Hoggart as the director for the Centre of Cultural Studies in 1968. He was the founding editor of "Sounding: A Journal of Politics and Culture."
What are the important Cultural works by Stuart Hall?
- Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse (1902)
- Resistance Through Rituals (1975)
- Policing the Crisis - A Book (1978)
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