Paper: 8Paper name: The Cultural

StudiesPrepared by: Drashti

MehtaRoll no: 8PG Enrollment No:

PG13101021Seat No:11310009Sem: 2Email

id:drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.com

Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinghji Bhavnagar University.

Bhavnagar UniversityBhavnagar(Gujarat-India)

Cultural AnalysisMethod

• Method is a technique employed by the researcher

1. To frame questions2. To collect and organize

data

Methodology

• Methodology is a critical approach used

1. to interpret the data collected

Method refers to:

Identifying Sources

Questionnaires

Databases

Actual Fieldwork

Methodology refers to

1. The political position and the interpretive strategies used by the researchers.

2. This refers to the epistemological approach and concerns

• The Philosophical approach• Political approach of the

researchers.3. It is a Critical approach

used to interpret the data collected.

Women in Hindi filmsMethod Methodology

To organize the question to be asked

Identifying your own ideology

To take decisions about the people to Interview

( Marxist, Feminist)

(group, class composition, language)

Reflecting on your experiences before framing the questions

To prepare the Questions Interpreting the data collected based on your assumptions

To conduct the Interviews

Cultural studies: Set of warnings

• What gives us the authority to use people/ communities as resource material study their ‘Culture’?

• What is the relationship between the Knower and the known?

• What is the location from which the researcher is asking the question analysis?

Research Process

Isol

ation

During Research, the researcher isolates his or her location and politics

Cons

cious

The researcher has to be conscious of the Vantage point from which he is making his observation and Interpretation.

Reflexivity

In social and critical theory, where the researcher reflects, own position, called “Reflexivity”.

Feminine ContextI. Cultural studies in the Euro-American

contexts, connects empirical data and theorizing about this data with a wider feminist politics in the public realm.

II. Feminist studies of film audiences link the representation of women in film media with larger issues of gender inequality in society.

III. It is crucial- assumption – cultural artifacts can not be studied independent of the social and material context.

FilmsI. Representation of Women in

Films are located in actual contexts of:

• Gender Oppression,• Domestic Violence• Patriarchal Family structure• Economic Inequalities of the

genders.

Two factors: have to be kept in mind

• The study should draw upon as large a number of ‘Sources’ for it to have any value.

• This makes the study representative of a social group.

• It should be, spread out over a period of time and context, if we need to make a generalized statement about cultural practices.

John Fiske: Old fashioned Ethnography

Researchers ‘immerses’ self in the cultural being

studied unnecessary

Because we mostly study our own cultures now

Contemporary time

• Cultural Studies is most interested in the way meanings are made and the discourses within which these are made.

• This involves a study of the process of representation and ‘texts’, seeing these as instrumental in the construction of identity.

• Thus, Cultural studies investigate, intensively, the production of meaning rather than involving itself in extended observation.

Ann gray( 2003)• Three propositions:

Relationship of the knower and the known

The procedure of knowing

Conclusion• This require formulating the

structure of the ‘Case Study’• The Case study is a limited

bounded system which is under observation for particular phenomena.

Gmail id: drashti.mehta.111993@gmail.com