cultural studies
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- noun
- /ˈkʌltʃərəl ˈstʌdiz/
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estudios culturales
- Students in cultural studies often analyze films and literature to understand cultural representations.
- cultural studies and composition
- cultural studies scholars
- cultural studies movement
Examples
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The research in cultural studies provides insights into how different societies interpret cultural symbols.
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In short, cultural studies sets out to describe the power relationships that differing ideologies invoke.
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What does it mean to look at human learning from the position of digital cultural studies?
Academic text (2017) -
My point of entry into American Studies is via the cultural studies route.
Academic text (1999) -
Because I'm a professor of cultural studies.
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His name was Paul, and he taught cultural studies at Amherst College.
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Scholars interested in cultural studies tend to be concerned that geopolitical and economic studies are too prominent.
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Over the past few decades, visual cultural studies have rarely been discussed, challenged, or reworked in social movement scholarship.
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Recent works in art history and cultural studies have considered modernity and modernism as global, multiple, and negotiated phenomena.
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Nelson, Treichler, and Grossberg understate the case greatly when they note that "cultural studies has not embraced all political positions."
Academic text (1999)
How Academic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an academic field studying culture' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'cultural' (about a society's arts, customs, norms) with 'studies' (a branch of knowledge). The pattern X + studies = 'the study of X' is a common, compositional naming pattern in English (and many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term cultural studies comes from a simple idea: treat ordinary things like music, TV and fashion as objects to watch and think about closely. With cultural meaning people's everyday life and studies meaning careful looking, scholars tried to find hidden meanings and who has power, so the phrase now means 'the study of everyday culture and power'.