All Major Terms from Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies Terms 3 Bourdieu's Terms Field and Habitus So, we now know that Cultural Capital denotes your skills and tastes, your cars and other material possessions, and your University degrees. Your Cultural Capital (which you share with a group in the form of Collective Capital) takes the form of your habits, attitudes and dispositions. For example, people belonging to certain groups wear ethnic clothes like sarees, while others wear modern, Western clothes; certain people enjoy classical music, while others enjoy pop music; and some members of the same family might like vegetarian food while others enjoy non-vegetarian food... all because their Cultural Capital is different. These deeply ingrained habits and attitudes of people (that is the physical embodiment of their Cultural Capital) is called HABITUS . We often think our habits and attitudes (Habitus) are objective and natural, but they are actually subjectively and culturally developed, based on past experi...

Who is Pierre Bourdieu? Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century. He was French; he taught in Algeria during the French colonial rule, and during the Algerian War, he did an ethnographic study of the Kabyle people, the largest native community in Algeria. Ethnography forms the basis of all his theoretical postulations. Courtesy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Bourdieu Let's first talk about the concept of Capital. Capital is the money or any resource that gets you a higher social position. And, Capital is the major reason for social inequality. Bourdieu talks about two kinds of Capital: Social Capital (WHO you know) and Cultural Capital (WHAT you know and what you have). Cultural Capital can be of three types: Embodied (qualities of the mind and the body, that is, skills, accent, artistic taste, etc) Objectified (material belongings such as cars) Institutionalised (symbols of authority and cultural...

Culture Studies Term 1 Who introduced the terms Encoding and Decoding ? Encoding and Decoding denote a communication model developed by Stuart Hall in the 1973 essay titled "Encoding and Decoding in Television Discourse". Courtesy: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/stuart-hall-and-the-rise-of-cultural-studies What theory are these terms  part of? These terms are part of Communication Theory as well as Reception Theory, that is, the theory of how an audience receives messages. In developing these terms, Stuart Hall was influenced by Semiotics, or the science of signs. Stuart Hall's theory of communication is part of Culture Studies because it shows how communication produces and reflects culture. What is Encoding/Decoding? In communication, a Sender "encodes" a message with meaning and the Receiver "decodes" the message and understands it. And what are Codes? Codes are a set of conventions used to communicate meaning. For examp...