Cultural Studies, British

British cultural studies works with an inclusive definition of culture. That is, it is a “democratic” project in the sense that, rather than study only what Matthew Arnold, in Culture and Anarchy (1867), called “the best which has been thought and said,” British cultural studies is committed to examining all that has been thought and said. To put it simply, culture is how we live nature (including our own biology): It is the shared meanings we make and encounter in our everyday lives. Culture is not something essential, embodied in particular “texts” (i.e., any commodity, object, or event that can be made to signify): It is the practices and processes of making meanings with and from the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. In this way, then, cultures are made from the production, circulation, and consumption of meanings

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• Selections from the Prison Notebooks

  Open Access•Antonio Gramsci•On Violence•2007

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• Stuart Hall

  Stuart Hall, David Morley andDavid Morley et al.•Stuart Hall•2006

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• Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture

  Jennifer Storey, John Storey•Cultural Studies and the Study of…•2010

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• Inventing Popular Culture

  Open Access•Ray B Browne•The Journal of American Culture•2004

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