Thinking Activity - Cultural Studies

 Hello Readers

I am Hinaba Sarvaiya student of English department at MKBU. And this blog is my acedemic writing, that task given by our prof. Barad sir. What is the cultural studies? and how many angles to studies on culture. I have studied that power and media studies are at the center of discussion in cultural studies. Now have a looked open same question based on cultural studies.

Defination:-

“Cultural Studies is not a tightly coherent unified movement with a fixed agenda, but a loosely coherent group of tendencies, issues, and questions.”

Cultural studies is composed of elements of Marxism, Post structuralism and Postmodernism, Feminism, Gender studies, anthropology, sociology, race and ethnic studies, film theory, urban studies, public policy, popular culture studies and Postcolonial studies: those field that concentrate on social and cultural forces that either create community or cause division and alienation.

Your understanding of power in Cultural Studies:-

My understanding of power in Cultural Studies like who control by power? What is power center by us?  So Many questions like that and we have know that some time wealth, authority, or other things are important to control by the power. Let's take some point to explain which tipe or elements we find to support or increased the power.

There are six main sources of civic power:

1) Physical forces means power of Police

2) Wealth means we can see the Nithyananda left India and made a self proclaimed Island nation called Kailaasa. Here we find the wealth became a power to create own nation or own Island.

3) state action: means state government who decide what to do or not either they elected or dictatorship.

4) Social Norms: Social norms govern the behavior of the members of society

5) Ideas: means power generate idea and and suggest to people to do as power like.

6) Number: means majority of thinkers who create power by expressing collective intensity of interest.

After that we will get idea that how power operate, there are three laws of power.

1. power is never static

2. Power is like water

3. Power compound