KS100 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Communist Manifesto, Working Class Culture, Friedrich Engels
Document Summary
Cultural studies is the relation between culture and society. Cultural is the process of making and maintaining sense. The social production and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness. We actively engage in making sense of our surroundings. Economy lies at the heard of the origins of cultural studies. One of the oldest examples of cultural studies: plato"s republic. How we need to organize our social/political lives in order to prevent social unrest. The answer is education: believed the stories we tell our children when they are young mold them into who they grow up to be, parents have some obligation to sensor what they kids are exposed to. In late 18th and 19th centuries the idea that education is at the heart of a good society took off. This is the process of acculturation (person becomes cultured/introduced to the society in which they live) Children tended to be educated into the culture of the elite (dominant political class)
