Cultural Studies, British
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Storey (0000-0002-7197-9901, corresponding author), John Storey |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc180 |
| OpenAlex | W4255486551 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Commodity · Consumption (sociology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Media studies · Object (grammar · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Cultural Studies · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |