MDSA02H3 Midterm: mid term notes for MDSA01

• School: UTSC
• Department: Media Studies
• Course: MDSA02H3
• Professor: Ted Petit

Document Summary

This chapter begins with a discussion over theories of culture and ideology, concentrating on how the ideologies of any given culture work to normalize and privilege certain perspectives on reality. Then briefly outlines the historical development of the british cultural studies tradition as a way of understanding the political underpinnings of the cultural studies scholarship. Finally, we consider how ideologies influence the construction of media texts in relation to two historically relevant social issues in the cultural studies tradition: class and race. (pg124) As a way of understanding social organization, culture can be a problematic term. Scholars disagree over the best way to conceptualize or understand the issue of culture. In mulling over the idea of culture, sociologist michael richardson provides this possible definition culture is simply what human beings produce and the means by which we preserve what we have produced. culture is constructed, multi-faceted, and uniquely human.