ABOUT CULUTURAL STUDIES

In this blog I have wrote about cultural  studies. Which is given as a task. So, what is culutural studies?

Defination  of cultural  studies

cultural studies, interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of social institutions in the shaping of culture. 

History  of  cultural studies 

Cultural studies emerged in Britain in the late 1950s and subsequently spread internationally, notably to the United States and Australia. Originally identified with the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham (founded 1964) and with such scholars as Richard Hoggart, Stuart Hall, and Raymond Williams, cultural studies later became a well-established field in many academic institutions, and it has since had broad influence in sociology, anthropology, historiography, literary criticism, philosophy, and art criticism. Among its central concerns are the place of race or ethnicity, class, and gender in the production of cultural knowledge

About cultural  studies 

Cultural studies does not begin with a general theory of culture but rather views cultural practices as the intersection of many possible effects. It does not start by defining culture or its effects, or by assembling, in advance, a set of relevant dimensions within which to describe particular practices. Instead, cultural practices are places where different things can and do happen. Nor can one assume, in advance, how to describe the relation of specific cultural formations to particular organizations of power. Consequently, the common assumption that cultural studies is, necessarily, a theory of ideology and representation, or of identity and subjectivity, or of the circulation of communication (production-text-consumption), or of hegemony, is mistaken. Cultural studies often addresses such issues, but that is the result of analytic work on the context rather than an assumption that overwhelms the fact. 

Concept of Michel  fauculot 

Foucault uses the term ‘ power&knowledge that‘power/knowledge’ to signify that power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’:

power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’:

‘Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint.  And it induces regular effects of power. 

There are six sources of power

1Physical force

2Wealth 

3State government 

4Social norms

5Ideas

6Numbers

My understanding 

I believe that whatever sources of power in this but one may diagnosis  that who is in the power?and by which source they control  over the people so in short I believe that power  is always to be question