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Paper: 8Paper name: The Cultural
StudiesPrepared by: Drashti
MehtaRoll no: 8PG Enrollment No:
PG13101021Seat No:11310009Sem: 2Email
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.
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