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Culture ● Culture is a social institution composed of customs, practices, and traditions of a community/groups of people ● Culture is a social construction ● Knowledge ● Power ● ValuesCultural Studies ● Interdisciplinary ● Film Studies ● Art History ● English etcStuart Hall ● Founder & Editor-in...

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Culture ● Culture is a social institution composed of customs, practices, and traditions of a community/groups of people ● Culture is a social construction ● Knowledge ● Power ● Values Cultural Studies ● Interdisciplinary ● Film Studies ● Art History ● English etc Stuart Hall ● Founder & Editor-in-Chief, New Left Review ● Founding member, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (talked about feminism and race) (1964- 2002) ● “British Cultural Studies” ● “Birmingham School” ● Key theories: Encoding/decoding Policing the Crisis (1978) Resistance Through Ritual (1989) British Cultural studies ● Richard Hoggart ● The Uses of Literacy (1957) ● Autobiography ● Practices of everyday life ● Working Class ● Raymond Williams ● The Long Revolution (1961) ● Practices of everyday life ● Working Class Marx Base/Superstructure Model ● Superstructure model ● Consciousness Ideology Hegemony ● Social Institutions Culture Politics

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Education Law Religion Media Base Means of production Machinery Relations of production Labour Proletariat/ Bourgeoisie

British Critiques of this model ● Highly Eurocentric ● Too much Emphasis placed on economic base as the main determinant of society...