Module 1 : . Introduction

Lecture 1 : Cultural Studies: An Introduction




Questions:

1.  How may we delineate the domain called Cultural Studies?

2.  Give a few examples of the way culture has been defined by scholars.

3.  Who were the scholars that gave a culturalist and materialist break to the social sciences?

4.  Name a few constituent terms or key concepts in Cultural Studies.

5.  Is the ultimate target of Cultural Studies the text? Discuss.

6.  What are the characteristic features of anti-positivism?

7.  Discuss, after Bennett and Frow, the shift in the social sciences from structures to meaning-making.