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Culture 1
Culture 1
Culture: examples
Task:
What is cultural in your life?
Theater, music, food, traditions, books, habits, TV, beliefs,
attitudes/points of view, religion, language, education,
clothes, law, family, art, advertising, origin, traveling,
stereotypes, hairstyles, everything, economic aspects,
corporate culture, buildings,
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Not cultural:
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Nature, climate
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Cultural studies
Talk about culture
Talk about talking about culture
Culture: examples
_______________ culture:
Which words can be found in the blank space?
youth
high
subculture
heritage
mass
pop / popular
black culture / African American
English / British/ ...
Culture: examples
definition produced through exclusion = through what its not !
e.g. high culture
Culture
Raymond Williams: culture = one of the most complex
and complicated words in the English language
Culture
Raymond Williams: culture = one of the most complex
and complicated words in the English language
definitions and concepts of culture:
narrow (exclusive) ones vs. broad ones (inclusive ones)
always implicit: what its not!
Culture
example:
Matthew Arnold (Great Britain, 19th century)
culture = the best that has been thought and said
Culture
example:
Raymond Williams (1950s-1980s, Great Britain):
To speak of popular culture usually means to mobilize the
second and third meanings of the word culture. The second
meaning culture as a particular way of life would allow us
to speak of such practices as the seaside holiday, the
celebration of Christmas, and youth subcultures. These are
usually referred to as lived cultures or cultural practices.
(John Storey, Understanding Popular Culture)
Culture
example:
Raymond Williams (1950s-1980s, Great Britain):
The third meaning culture as signifying practices would
allow us to speak of soap opera, pop music, and comics, as
examples of culture. These are usually referred to as cultural
texts.
(John Storey, Understanding Popular Culture)
Culture
shared
representation, to represent
representation, to represent
language as a model: arbitrariness, conventions and codes,
signs, signifiers, signifieds, differentiation and difference, ...
see reader!
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