SOCIAL WORLD
APPROACH TO CULTURAL STUDIES
Mass Media and Gender in the Adolescent Peer Group
MELISSA A. MILKIE
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 23, No. 3, 354-380 (1994) DOI:
10.1177/089124194023003005 © 1994 SAGE Publications
Cultural sociologists and those studying socialization share an interest in understanding
the ways in which media are important within social life. Studies of mass media include
those focusing on the production of culture, the content of cultural products, and
individual interpretations of media images. However, a fourth domain in cultural studies,
the social world, or the context in which media are experienced, has been disregarded.
This ethnographic analysis of an adolescent microculture uses a unique method for studying
media influence—a group of friends in their natural school setting spontaneously and
collectively make gendered meanings based on media content. The influence of mass media on
gender relations can be seen as the boys produce and reproduce meanings, based on
stereotypical media messages, within their peer group. This occurs through appropriating
scenes from cable television films that embody traditional male culture, identifying with
the models of masculinity available through media content and imputing stereotypical
notions of gender to the mass media. Integrating this important fourth realm of cultural
studies—the social world of media—with an interpretive reproduction approach to
socialization provides a fuller understanding of how mass media are influential within
modern society. - jce.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/3/354
Banality, book publishing and the everyday life of cultural studies
Ted Striphas, Ohio University, USA
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, 438-460 (2002) © 2002 SAGE
Publications
This article explores the institutionalization of cultural studies relative to changes
taking place in North American universities and the global book publishing industry.
Assuming that the publishing industry is a key site in which cultural studies gets
negotiated and defined, I ask: what are the politics of publishing cultural studies? I
argue that the demands of contemporary university life and current publishing practices
potentially lend themselves to a banal and depoliticized, or worse yet a politically
retrograde, 'global' cultural studies, in which the important work of many scholars
working outside the field's Anglophone centers ironically becomes marginalized. I conclude
by exploring how those who practice and publish cultural studies might approach publishing
projects in a manner more sensitive to the field's own global information flows. -
ics.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/4/438
Beyond Analytic Critique: Cultural Studies and/as Alternative Media Network
Vincent Rocchio, Communication Studies, Northeastern University
Abstract: This paper combines Fredric Jameson’s theory of positive hermeneutics with
network distribution theory of New Media Studies to discuss how Cultural Studies can move
beyond its loose-knit structure as an academic organization, and function instead as an
alternative media network whose discourses could circulate within mainstream
culture.
Jameson’s early work on positive hermeneutics is an attempt to move beyond the
limitations of analytic critique, but it has been ignored by Cultural Studies, which
remains very much locked into textual or other forms of analysis as its sole objective. As
Jameson demonstrates,analytic critique is foundational to the work of Cultural Studies,
but it should not be the end point.
This paper demonstrates what a positive hermeneutics might look like by examining the
current structure of corporate mainstream media and its evolution from a centralized
network to a more distributed network and its integration with the far right. The paper
then looks at the much smaller, but emerging, progressive media network that is using the
structure of a distributed network to challenge and contest corporate media.
Following this structural analysis, this paper will then demonstrate how Cultural Studies
can function as a distributed network, independent of, but participating with, the
progressive media network, as a means of having more direct political impact. It then
details the small, but collective, organizational changes that would be required in order
to function as a distributed network whose voice would actually be heard in mainstream
culture.
Make no mistake about it, this is not some simple proscription that “We should all be
blogging”. Rather, this paper is a strategic plan that delineates the potential and
the stakes in combining collective reorganization of the work of cultural studies with an
integrated concept of the private media landscape in the U.S.—including, but not
limited to, the emerging trend of the internet as a distribution network for televisual
programming, the growing number of independent book publishers (despite the consolidation
trend), and the enormous growth of progressive radio. It attempts to reposition scholars
of cultural studies from individual laborers in the academic employment market
place--subject to the demands and contingencies of the institution--to content providers
that function within and use the resources of the academic institution. In this respect,
it looks to propose a strategic plan to close the gap between academia and mainstream
culture. - csaus.pitt.edu
Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America
By Sophia A. McCLENNEN and Earl E. FITZ
The genesis of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America in the
journal CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture stems from a growing conviction on the
part of the guest editors of the issue that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin
American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature
publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. As statistics compiled by Sophia A.
McClennen clearly show, the literatures of Spanish America and Brazil appear much less
frequently in comparative literature journals worldwide than do works written in such
languages as English, French, and German... - clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb02-2/
introduction(mcclennen&fitz).html
Towards a Map of the Current Critical Debate about Latin American Cultural
Studies
Julio ORTEGA
Abstract: In his paper, "Towards a Map of the Current Critical Debate about Latin
American Cultural Studies," Julio Ortega surveys the shifting disciplinary, critical,
and methodological paradigms used to study Latin American culture in both the United
States and Latin America. Describing the post-theoretical period as a moment when grand
analytical models are abandoned in favor of microanalyses, Ortega sees great potential in
this new paradigm shift. In his paper, Ortega pays particular attention to the ways that
the field of cultural studies has emerged and transformed in Latin American academic
inquiry and he considers the disavowal of master critical models to open up spaces for
dialogue and critical exchange. Nevertheless, the practice of cultural studies in Latin
America and the U.S. has not always indicated emancipatory politics or liberating critical
readings. In order for cultural study to be heterogeneous, fluid and dialogic, scholarly
work must take care to negotiate the prevailing discourses of power. Ultimately, Ortega
points to the emerging field of Trans-Atlantic Studies as an exemplary case of new
critical practice and he describes the field as a dynamic and open-ended area of study
that does not require a traditional canon or disciplinary configuration. -
clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu
Nabokov and World Literature
Charles Stanley ROSS
Abstract: In his paper "Nabokov and World Literature" Charles Stanley Ross
thinks through the relationship between comparative literature and cultural studies by
considering the absence of Nabokov's work in The Norton Anthology of World Literature. The
problem seems to be that Nabokov's works are not susceptible to the kind of varying
interpretations favored by the Norton's editors, although in practice, Azar Nafisi's
Reading Lolita in Tehran, for example, shows that even Nabokov's tightly controlled
fiction can generate diverse responses. The more complex modes of reading that form the
basis of David Damrosch's What is World Literature? are used to interrogate just how
certain texts enter the canon of world literature. According to Ross, a survey of websites
suggests that cultural studies is almost anything at all while at the same time there is
general agreement, which perhaps needs challenging, that what defines the field is that it
expands the horizon of academic analysis beyond high culture. In sum, Ross argues that
were cultural studies enriched with some of the established practices of comparative
literature, cultural studies would indeed develop into a formidable discipline. -
clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb06-2/contents06-2.html
The Study of Culture: Cultural Studies and British Sociology Compared
Steve Baron, University of Stirling, Scotland
Acta Sociologica, Vol. 28, No. 2, 71-85 (1985) DOI: 10.1177/000169938502800201 © 1985
Scandinavian Sociological Association
In this paper the emergence of Cultural Studies is traced and its current place in British
intellectual life assessed. Throughout a companson is drawn between Cultural Studies and
British Sociology. In the first part of the paper the 'original curriculum' of Cultural
Studies is analysed in its making of a sharp break from previous disciplinary practices
The foundation of Cultural Studies on theoretically defined grounds is then described In
the second part of the paper the changes in Cultural Studies since its inception are
described and the current critical potential of the practice assessed. On a pessimistic
note the paper ends by noting the threat to the survival of Cultural Studies from the
current round of rationalizations of British Higher Education. -
asj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/2/71
Black Cultural Studies
David Marriott, University of Santa Cruz
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of black cultural studies in 2004. It
is divided into four sections: 1. Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexuality; 2. Black Visual
Culture; 3. Music and Culture; 4. Philosophy and Identity. -
ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/274
Cultural Studies: General
TONY PURVIS
This chapter is divided into three sections: 1. Theoretical and Critical Accounts; 2.
Surveys and Critical Introductions; 3. Introductions to Theorists. -
ywcct.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/1/53
Cultural Studies in Japan
An Interview with Shunya Yoshimi
Tomoko Tamari, Nottingham Trent University
Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 305-314 (2006) DOI:
10.1177/0263276406073232 © 2006 Theory, Culture & Society Ltd.
This interview focuses on the history and current developments of cultural studies in
Japan. Shunya Yoshimi is one of the leading figures in cultural studies in Japan since its
introduction in the mid-1990s. He is currently engaged in the task of developing cultural
studies in Asia with younger generations of scholars and to this end has helped
established a new type of cultural movement, Cultural Typhoon, as well as contributing to
expand Asian cultural studies networks, such as Inter Asia Cultural Studies. He argues
that cultural studies has been questioning the relationship between meaning and power in
everyday life through a variety of concrete and practical fields. In fact, he argues, it
is inevitable for cultural studies to ask questions about the politics, if we in cultural
studies are to develop actual knowledge of cultural production and consumption today.
Hence, it is essential to investigate the micro-politics of bodies in relation to
macro-political processes. In the case of Japan, working on cultural studies within an
existing discipline also means engaging in experiments, which ultimately could have the
potential to undermine existing disciplines from within. -
tcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/7-8/305
Reflections on the Development of Cultural Studies in Japan
Tomoko Tamari, Nottingham Trent University
Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, No. 7-8, 293-304 (2006) DOI:
10.1177/0263276406073231 © 2006 Theory, Culture & Society Ltd.
Although Japan had its own distinctive ‘pre-history’ of cultural studies, which
produced some excellent research on popular culture, which can be traced back to the
1920s, the current state of cultural studies has been criticized by conventional
mainstream academics; whereas the younger generation has been attracted by cultural
studies as a new academic trend. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan
is Cultural Typhoon. This new movement seeks to avoid institutionalization and create an
alternative academic public sphere alongside broadened cultural practices, social
activities and political interventions. Cultural studies in Japan can be seen as a part of
a new diversity in cultural studies, which has some potentialities to move beyond the
academy and open new dialogical spaces for communication and cultural intervention. -
tcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/7-8/293
Media Cultural Studies' Uncomfortable Embrace of Ethnography
Patrick D. Murphy
Journal of Communication Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 3, 205-221 (1999) DOI:
10.1177/0196859999023003002 © 1999 SAGE Publications
This article explores ethnography's place in media cultural studies by examining obstacles
that have frustrated ethnographic practice. The author argues that although audience
ethnographies developed in cultural studies have nourished theory, most disparage
fieldwork in favor of more abstract theoretical exercises. Resistance studies,
postmodernism, and anthropology's encounter with post-structuralism are examined in
relation to this tendency in cultural studies. Conclusions are drawn that some
ethnographers already offer new methodological approaches that could provide a point of
departure for the reinvestment in media ethnography. However, to make these approaches
useful, audience ethnographers must reconsider the heuristic value of doing fieldwork.
Moreover, new ethnographies could help contextualize and strengthen the more abstract
theorizing of cultural studies by providing links and revealing tensions between private
appropriations and structural determinations. -
jci.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/3/205
Telemedicine in South Dakota - A Cultural Studies Approach
WARREN BAREISS, Austin College, Sherman, TX
New Media & Society, Vol. 3, No. 3, 327-355 (2001) DOI: 10.1177/14614440122226128 ©
2001 SAGE Publications
The term `telemedicine' refers to health care and health education transmitted over large
distances via computer with interactive audio and video capabilities. Over the past
decade, telemedicine has been widely hailed as a means of administering health care to
rural areas where doctors are scarce. Most research on the subject emphasizes
technological, regulatory, and utilitarian aspects of telemedicine. This study, however,
develops a cultural studies perspective in order to examine how social relationships are
negotiated with regard to telemedicine in a particular context. The contextual focus is
South Dakota - a state where telemedicine has rapidly developed in response to an ongoing
crisis in health care access. An overview of economic and health care conditions in South
Dakota is followed by examinations of network structures through which telemedicine
operates in the state and an analysis of how telemedicine is rhetorically constructed in
the state's leading newspaper. Concluding sections discuss the hegemonic nature of
telemedicine in South Dakota and raise questions about telemedicine in other contexts. -
nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/3/327
'Media Wars': Journalism, cultural and media studies in Australia
Graeme Turner, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland,
Australia
Journalism, Vol. 1, No. 3, 353-365 (2000) © 2000 SAGE Publications
The relationship between journalism and cultural studies in the tertiary education system
in Australia has never been a comfortable one. Communications studies, journalism studies,
media studies and cultural studies programmes have all developed over the last two
decades, but in an institution-specific manner. The tensions embedded in some of these ad
hoc arrangements - tensions not necessarily confined to these disciplines but often
implicit in any merger between critical theory and professional practice - boiled over in
a series of newspaper articles by journalism educator Keith Windschuttle in 1998 which
attacked the use of cultural and media studies in journalism programmes. A one-day
conference was held in November 1998 specifically to debate the relationship between
journalism educators and cultural studies academics. This review essay outlines some of
the lessons to be learned from the 'Media Wars' conference, before defending the value of
developing specific areas of common ground - both in the academy and in public debates
about the function of the media - between the two disciplinary fields. -
jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/353
How can global journalists represent the 'Other'?: A critical assessment of the
cultural studies concept for media practice
Elfriede Fursich, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Journalism, Vol. 3, No. 1, 57-84 (2002) © 2002 SAGE Publications
Many cultural studies scholars analyze media texts to show evidence of problematic
representations of the 'Other'. I transfer these concepts to current global media
practice, especially television journalism. As an exemplar, I use travel journalism as a
site where representing the Other is the constitutive part of the work. Standard
television production praxis is evaluated through insights from visual anthropology and
cultural studies. Moreover, actual journalistic strategies are proposed that help create
more open texts and encourage multiple representations. The cultural studies concept of
'Representing the Other' is helpful as a model for text and media critique. Yet it lacks
the potential to overcome the epistemological dilemma journalists face when covering
others. Only self-reflective and critical approaches towards traditional-ritualistic
reporting and production strategies can help to disentangle problematic media
representations. - jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/1/57
Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Cultural Governance
Kenneth Thompson, Open University
International Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 4, 593-605 (2001) DOI: 10.1177/0268580901016004005
© 2001 International Sociological Association
It can be argued that, in the light of the `cultural turn' in sociology, the search for
new sources of critical theory, might profitably begin by considering the contributions of
the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies, particularly the lessons to be learned
from the Frankfurt School and then from British cultural studies in dealing with the
problem of reconciling radical critical theory with the demands of cultural policy and
administration. The contributions of these two traditions in cultural theory to debates
about cultural governance are used to illustrate the dilemma. -
iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/4/593
Problems in the Study of Democratization in Latin America
Regime Analysis vs Cultural Studies
Paulo J. Krischke, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
International Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 107-125 (2000) DOI: 10.1177/0268580900015001006
© 2000 International Sociological Association
This article is a comparative review of two mutually exclusive approaches to the study of
democratization in Latin America, i.e. regime analysis and cultural studies, showing that
they make important contributions to the understanding of elite behavior during
institutional changes (regime analysis) and to the evaluation of cultural changes in
society (cultural studies). They also converge around central problems of democratization,
such as clientelism, but fail to present a comprehensive interpretation of political,
social and personal changes. A broader perspective is required, both from a comparative
and a universalist standpoint, in order to overcome these problems. -
iss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/1/107
Theorizing in Qualitative Research: A Cultural Studies Perspective
Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere, Finland
Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 2, No. 4, 371-384 (1996) DOI: 10.1177/107780049600200401 © 1996
SAGE Publications
This article discusses the interplay between empirical research and theory in
constructionist or cultural studies qualitative research. In cultural studies, theories
are seen as different frameworks, not as universal theories about social mechanisms. That
is why instead of generalizing understandings, cultural studies and other constructionist
approaches aim to particularize understandings of the social. The latter implicates the
local, while the former indirectly aims to obviate the local. Instead of assuming that any
corner of social reality leads to the traces of some universals to be pointed out in the
final analysis, in cultural studies a case study is understood to reveal a local and
historically specific cultural or "bounded" system. Because more generally
applicable theories are seen differently in this framework, theorizing also assumes
another form, which is discussed in the light of concrete examples from the author's own
fieldwork. - qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/4/371
Data Quality and Data Quality Control in Cross-Cultural Studies
Thomas Schweizer
Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 13, No. 2, 125-150 (1978) DOI: 10.1177/106939717801300203 ©
1978 SAGE Publications
This paper applies some distinctions of the philosophy of science to the problem of data
quality in cross-cultural studies. It outlines the data quality problem in such studies,
and reviews a path analytic partial solu tion and the logic of the usual cross-cultural
control procedures. And it presents some results of eross-cultural data quality control. -
ccr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/2/125
A Review of Cross-Cultural Studies on Moral Judgment Development Using the Defining
Issues Test
Yong-Lin Moon
Cross-Cultural Research, Vol. 20, No. 1-4, 147-177 (1986) DOI: 10.1177/106939718602000107
© 1986 SAGE Publications
Twenty cross-cultural studies on moral judgment development using the Defining Issues Test
(DIT) were reviewed with respect to cross- cultural validity, age/education trends, gender
difference correlations with other psychological factors, religion, urban-rural,
delinquency, and familial/societal factors. By and large, results indicate that the DIT
has similar psychometric properties (factor structure, internal consis tency, and
reliability) and construct validity in non-American cultures. However, the rate of
development and the strength of relationships with other variables were found to differ
across cultures. It is suggested that fine-grained research is needed to explain (rather
than describe) the differences and similarities in terms of cultural and societal
causation. - ccr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/1-4/147
Cross-Cultural Studies of Person Perception
Effects of Ingroup/Outgroup Membership and Ethnic Schemata
Pawel Boski, Wichita State University
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 3, 287-328 (1988) DOI:
10.1177/0022022188193002 © 1988 SAGE Publications
Two approaches to the study of intergroup/interpersonal relations, in/outgroup
categorization (motivational) and schema-confirmation (cognitive), are introduced. These
two concepts are integrated into a two-dimensional taxonomy, so that a stimulus person can
appear as a schema-consistent or -inconsistent member of an in- or outgroup. It is
hypothesized that the phenomena of ingroup favoritism/outgroup discrimination should be
limited to schema-consistent actors. As the model includes a nonfamiliar outgroup level of
analysis, it allows questions to be addressed pertaining to universality versus cultural
specificity of person-perception phenomena. Two studies were conducted with Nigerian
(Hausa and Ibo) and Canadian undergraduates participating as observers of videotaped Hausa
and Ibo actors, cast in their ethnic schema-consistent (typical) roles and in
schema-inconsistent (atypical) roles. Results from the Nigerian study gave modest support
for the proposed model. As predicted, schema-consistent ingroup actors were liked more,
but that effect did not generalize to the domain of perception variables. There, the
ingroup individuals were generally rated higher on Personally Close and the outgroups
scored higher on Competent/Motivated, an impersonal dimension. Other comparisons between
the two studies demonstrated a positivity effect in perception of Nigerian actors by
Canadian observers and differences in perceptual predictors for liking and achievement
outcome. - jcc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/3/287
Infants Around the World: Cross-Cultural Studies of Psychomotor Development from Birth
to Two Years
Emmy E. Werner, 209 Walker Hall, University of California, Davis, California
95616.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 2, 111-134 (1972) DOI:
10.1177/002202217200300201 © 1972 SAGE Publications
Comparisons were made of the findings of fifty cross-cultural studies of psychomotor
development, from birth to two years, of contemporary groups of infants on five
continents. The effects of ethnicity, amount and type of caretaker stimulation, and
nutritional status were discussed. African infants showed the greatest early acceleration,
Caucasian infants the least, while Latin American and Asian infants ranked intermediate.
Within each ethnic group, "traditionally" reared, rural infants showed greater
motor acceleration than "Westernized, " urban infants in the first six to twelve
months, and a greater decline, after weaning, in adaptive and language development, in the
second year. Within both traditional and Westernized samples of the same ethnic groups,
infants with higher birthweight were more accelerated. -
jcc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/2/111
The Relevance of Familism in Cross-Cultural Studies of Family Caregiving
Isela Luna, Esperanza Torres de Ardon College of Nursing, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ
Young Mi Lim, Department of Nursing, Kwandong University, #522 Naegok-dong, Kangreung,
Kangwon-do, Korea
Sandra L. Cromwell, School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center, San
Antonio, TX
Linda R. Phillips, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Cynthia K. Russell, Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee,
Memphis, TN.
Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 18, No. 3, 267-283 (1996) DOI:
10.1177/019394599601800304 © 1996 SAGE Publications
Although familism has been studied in both Mexican American and Anglo families, there is
controversy about whether familism in both groups is the same. Research has shown great
within-group variability, and in addition, the kinship structure in the two groups
isfundamentally different. This article explores the cross-cultural issues in
conceptualizing familism and its relevance to caregiving among Anglo and Mexican American
caregivers. Based on data obtained in an ongoing research program, the process of arriving
at similarities and differences in the expression of familism is discussed using Berry's
criteria for achieving cultural equivalence. -
wjn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/18/3/267
CULTURAL STUDIES IN GERMANY REVISITED
Horak R.
Source: Cultural Studies , Volume 16, Number 6, 1 November 2002, pp. 884-895(12)
Abstract: This contribution takes up the arguments developed in the essay 'Cultural
Studies in Germany (and Austria): why is there no such thing?' (European Journal of
Cultural Studies (1999), 2(1): 109-15). It refers, however,only to the German reception of
cultural studies and focuses on the different ways cultural studies have become
influential in various contexts since the 1970s. Three major stages can, roughly, be
detected. The first comes from a new Leftist background dealing with working class and
youth culture, and the discussion of the notion 'ideology'. The second grew out of the
youth culture debate in an attempt to re-politicize it, elaborated by the so-called
'German Pop left'. The third is now within academia, particularly in media studies
and'Kulturwissenschaften'. The contribution aims to sketch out the limitations of the,
however different, lines of the German reception of cultural studies as well as the
weaknesses of the attempts to work in cultural studies with reference to what can be
called the German (intellectual) tradition. - ingentaconnect.com
Teaching Nomadism: Inter/Cultural Studies in the Context of Translation Studies
Russell West
Source: Critical Studies, Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation. Edited by
Stefan Herbrechter., pp. 161-176(16)
Abstract: This essay places Anglo-American Cultural Studies in an international context,
specifically, that of translation studies degrees in contemporary Europe. It explores the
conditions under which cultural studies can be relevant to professionally oriented
translation studies. The discussion goes on to interrogate the ways in which cultural
studies and translation studies intersect, with the help of a reading of the recent novel
by the Australian translator, academic, critic and novelist Robert Dessaix, Night Letters
(1996), and its German translation, Breife aus der Nacht (1997). The cultural conflicts
and tensions typically examined by cultural studies, and exemplified in Dessaix' novel and
its translation provide the basis for the concluding discussion on the models of
subjective agency which a novel inter/cultural studies can offer students of translation
studies today. - ingentaconnect.com
Violence in the Workplace of Professional Sport from Victimological and Cultural
Studies Perspectives
Kevin Young, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive
N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 26, No. 1, 3-13 (1991) DOI:
10.1177/101269029102600102 © 1991 International Sociology of Sport Association and SAGE
Publications
Although the past few decades have seen a considerable growth in the number of
victimological studies, these studies have generally been based on traditional notions of
crime and victim. Consequently, victimology has offered only a very narrow and limited
victim agenda which requires expansion. While criminologists are paying increasing
attention to the victimization of workers in general, so far little attention has been
paid to ways in which professional athletes may be victimized. The paper explores the
possibility of including the work of piofessional athletes in the new victim agenda, and
critically assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the 'new victimologies' using a
cultural studies approach. - irs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/1/3
Understanding the Relationships between Women and Sport: The Contribution of British
Feminist Approaches in Leisure and Cultural Studies
Margaret Talbot, Carnegie Department, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds; England LS6 3QS
The paper argues that because of the partial development of sports sociology in Britain,
academic work on women and sport has been rooted in leisure and cultural studies, or has
reacted from recreational provision policy.
Feminist writers have therefore approached the area by making criticisms of both theory
and policy making within leisure studies, and offering radical feminist perspectives for
change. The areas of cultural and media studies have also provided useful frameworks
within which feminists may work, in analysing sport as a popular cultural form.
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 23, No. 1, 31-41 (1988) DOI:
10.1177/101269028802300104 © 1988 International Sociology of Sport Association and SAGE
Publications
The contributions of feminist work to the fields of leisure studies, cultural studies and
recreation policy are assessed in relation to their fresh understandings of women and
sport. - irs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/23/1/31
Scientific Literacy and Cultural Studies Project Abstract
To date, science educators have not studied what students and teachers believe about
the world, beliefs rooted and nurtured in the cultural environments in which students and
teachers live. If one were speaking of a non-Western, developing nation, one would speak
of students' traditional culture in contrast to the culture of science. Americans, on the
other hand, assume that science is a natural part of American students' culture. There is,
however, widespread disinterest in science. Also, American society is increasingly
pluralistic, and there are several cultural subgroups traditionally under represented in
science. A new approach is for American science educators to consider the possibility that
science is a second culture experience for many students. Traditionally, the study of
culture is left to the cultural anthropologists. In recent years, however, scholars in
several disciplines have undertaken cultural studies in which they investigate the
validity of cultural assumptions in their fields. Similarly, cultural studies in science
education can contribute significantly to our understanding of the barriers to effective
science education. We suggest that it is important for science educators to understand the
fundamental, culturally based beliefs about the world that students and teachers bring to
class, and how these beliefs are supported by culture; because, science education is
successful only to the extent that science can find a niche in the cognitive and cultural
milieu of students. Thus, the purpose of this research is to gain an understanding of
student and teacher fundamental beliefs about the world, and how personal/cultural
environments foster and support those beliefs. The methodology is ethnographic, involving
the extensive interviewing of students. - wmich.edu/slcsp/abstract.htm
Bourdieu, the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies: A Critique
Mary S. Mander
European Journal of Communication, Vol. 2, No. 4, 427-453 (1987) DOI:
10.1177/0267323187002004004 © 1987 SAGE Publications
This article explores both the contributions and the drawbacks of the work of French
sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Habitus and symbolic violence, terms central to Bourdieu's
thought, are explicated, as well as his critical assessments of methodological and
epistemological problems in current social scientific research. In particular the
drawbacks of public opinion polls and survey research, and the problematics of the social
scientist as social subject, are treated. Bourdieu's metaphorical preferences are
highlighted to indicate the assumptions he makes regarding social scientific practices and
the hidden pitfalls of adapting his work wholesale to the field of communications.
Finally, the social paradigm underpinning Bourdieu's work is compared with that
underpinning a cultural studies approach to the study of communications. -
ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/4/427
Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis: Histories,
Remembering and Futures
Terry Threadgold (Cardiff)
Abstract: In this paper I have explored some of the histories which inevitably connect,
but also differentiate, critical discourse analysis and cultural studies. I have argued
that both are strongly influenced by the versions of critical theory which have been
characterised as ‘postmodernism’ and ‘poststructuralism’ and that both
could benefit not only from some serious engagement with the several disciplines from
which their interdisciplinarity is derived but also from some further in depth exploration
of the critical theory which informs them and which they have often ‘translated’
or ‘co-opted’ in reductionist ways. I have also argued that the claims sometimes
made for critical discourse analysis are inflated and that without serious ethnographies
and attention to the theorisation as well as research of contexts those claims cannot
really be sustained. On the other hand ‘resignification’ or the cultural
politics of CDA are important agendas and we need to do much more work on establishing
exactly how social change can be effected through the kinds of work CDA could do. My
conclusion is that we need to reframe and recontextualise the ways in which we define and
perform CDA and that that will involve bringing cultural studies and critical discourse
analysis together in productive new ways with other disciplinary and theoretical
formations and with proper attention to the new and different global and local contexts in
which we work. - linguistik-online.de/14_03/threadgold_a.html
Cultural analysis within linguistics - Is linguistics part of cultural studies?
Kulturanalyse in der Linguistik - Ist Linguistik eine Kulturwissenschaft?
Herausgeberin/Editor: Antje Hornscheidt - linguistik-online.de/14_03/index.html
The Dialectics of Indigenous Culture and Change in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall
Apart
Willie Hobbs III
Journal of Cultural Studies > Vol. 3, No. 2 (2001)
Abstract: The nature and role of colonialism in the transformation, nay destruction of the
African past, and the nature of that past itself, is a matter that is far from settled.
While pioneer African writers like Chinua Achebe (in Things Fall Apart) see the
destruction of traditional culture in the coming of the whites, Western critics like James
Clifford question Achebe's assumption about the African (Igbo) world and western
interference. For the latter, the African (Igbo) world was a society in a state of
cultural hybridization, harbouring, as it were, the `germ' of its own change. This paper
establishes a dialectical and collaborative interpretation of such readings of the African
past by both Achebe and Clifford. It illustrates that such readings, rather than being
opposed to each other, exist in a context of mutual reinforcement of each other's
strengths thereby providing fresh insights into the understanding of cultural change in
Africa. - ajol.info/viewarticle.php?jid=39&id=1488
Forum: Cultural Geography and Cultural Studies - Geographical Research 44 (4),
418–418. doi:10.1111/j.1745-5871.2006.411_1.x
Abstract: This forum discusses linkages between cultural geography and allied 'cultural'
disciplines. A symposium on this topic – held at the 2005 conference of the Institute
of Australian Geographers in Armidale – was triggered by the targeted inclusion of
geography in a cross-disciplinary network funded by the Australian Research Council.
Although non-geographers in the network have articulated strong interest in and an
enthusiasm for geography, their knowledge of, and everyday participation in its
disciplinary travails have been limited. Given this, the papers in the forum review
geography's long and dynamic consideration of the relations between place and culture, and
raise a set of key issues for geographers to consider: how we might interact with other
disciplinary debates about the 'cultural', retain distinctiveness as the home of
intellectual inquiry around issues of space and place, and leverage opportunities to forge
more permanent connections to geographers working not in our traditional institutional
settings, but in a range of research centres, schools and disciplinary homes. -
blackwell-synergy.com
Measures of Pleasures: Cross-Cultural Studies and the European Integration
SLAWOMIR J. MAGALA
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)
Abstract: Measuring culture originated in cultural anthropology, but all social sciences
contributed to comparative cultural studies. Tracing critical approaches towards a
measurement of cultural values one is bound to strip the biases and stereotypes bare and
to invade numerous academic fiefs. Hofstede defined interdisciplinary cultural dimensions
but failed to anchor studying of culture's consequences in the academia. Measuring culture
(rituals, patterns, business recipes, symbols, standards) we end up measuring values and
competence in management of knowledge and skills, of norms and behaviours, cutting many
corners of established disciplines. Demanding, but should we fail to do so, our
cross-cultural experiment with the European integration could result in the corrosion of
character and bowling alone. - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=370979
CULTURAL STUDIES, VICTORIAN STUDIES, AND GRADUATE EDUCATION
John Kucich, University of Michigan
Abstract: LIKE MANY OTHER PEOPLE these days, I’m concerned about the speed-up in
graduate education. The chief cause of our students’ premature professionalization
is, of course, the terrible job market — which John Guillory has faulted for
propagating intellectual shallowness among our students, by forcing them to become active
scholars too soon. Guillory remarks, incidentally, that the social marginalization of
literary studies reflected in the job crisis coincides with its strident politicization,
which he reads as symptomatic of — and by no means a solution to — the decreased
relevance of the discipline itself in contemporary society. What Guillory doesn’t
mention, however, is the obvious role that cultural studies plays in the speed-up of
graduate studies, and the way its simplistic political imperatives contribute to that
speed-up. But it seems to me that the vast new territories cultural studies opens up to
scholarship, along with the pressures it creates in all of us to find a hot new cultural
topic (in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, one cultural studies professor to another:
“I want to do with Elvis what you did with Hitler”), require a reductive
politics to enable the quick consumption of knowledge that makes rapid professionalization
possible. Our students are no longer surprised by our “commodify or die” ethos.
- journals.cambridge.org
Cultural studies and discourse analysis: A dialogue on language and identity.
London: Sage, 2001. Pp. viii, 192. Pb.
CHRIS BARKER & DARIUSZ GALASINSKI,
Diana Eades, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i,
eades@hawaii.edu
What do these terms from the discipline of cultural studies mean? Do they have any
relevance to the study of language and identity? If these are questions you have found
yourself pondering, then Cultural studies and discourse analysis (CSDA) is a book you
should read. This work is a productive collaboration between a cultural studies scholar
(Barker) and a critical discourse analyst (Galasinski) who hope to “forge a useful
interdisciplinary dialogue” (1). Although their book is written with the specific aim
of showing cultural studies (CS) scholars how critical discourse analysis (CDA) can be
used as an analytical tool in investigating identities, for sociolinguists it is also a
good introduction to the way identity is theorized in CS. The identities analyzed in the
data-based chapters are masculinity (chap. 4), ethnicity and nationality (chap. 5), and
masculinity together with ethnicity (chap. 6). - journals.cambridge.org
Cultivating International Cross-Cultural Understanding for the Development of Teacher
Knowledge
Betty Christine Eng - Hong Kong Institute of Education (Presenter)
JoAnn I. Phillion - Purdue University (Presenter)
Ming Fang He - Georgia Southern University (Presenter)
Abstract: This paper session discusses the international cross-cultural understanding that
is developed by Hong Kong students through reading of classroom and teaching stories from
Canada and China in a two-year research project. The project was expanded with an on-line
exchange between pre-service teacher education students at Purdue University, Illinois and
the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The paper: 1) explores new ways to cultivate and
enhance cross-cultural understanding in teacher education; 2) proposes stories of
experience as a way of shaping and informing teacher knowledge; 3) discusses how students
making meaning from stories provide a critical and reflective understanding of their
personal and professional identities; and 4) describes the on-line exchange and how it
contributes to developing international cross-cultural understanding. -
convention.allacademic.com
Television and cultural studies: Unfinished business
Graeme Turner, University of Queensland, Australia
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4, 371-384 (2001) © 2001 SAGE
Publications
This introductory article argues that the current state of debate on television within
cultural studies is marked by considerable areas of theoretical and political uncertainty.
The spread of deregulatory and privatizing public policies in relation to television, and
the disarticulation of television from the idea of the national community and from the
role of the citizen, have posed new problems for theorizing the relation between
television and its audiences. In this article I survey a number of key areas of debate:
the relation between television, the nation and the state; television and the
citizen/consumer, television content and performance, and the likely future(s) of
television. - ics.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/4/371 |