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Cultural studies and cultural value

Author: John Frow
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Cultural Studies and Cultural Value seeks a revitalized and 'poststructuralist' account of social class, a basis from which cultural studies can effect a much-needed reorientation.

Cultural Studies and Cultural Value is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, reversing the traditional  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Frow
ISBN: 0198711271 9780198711278 019871128X 9780198711285
OCLC Number: 30971324
Description: viii, 190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. The Social Organization of Culture --
2. The Concept of the Popular --
3. Class and Cultural Capital --
4. Economies of Value.
Other Titles: Cultural studies & cultural value
Responsibility: John Frow.
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Abstract:

Cultural Studies and Cultural Value seeks a revitalized and 'poststructuralist' account of social class, a basis from which cultural studies can effect a much-needed reorientation.

Cultural Studies and Cultural Value is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, reversing the traditional hierarchy of value, but leaving intact the polarity and the direct correlation of culture and class. Through detailed readings of the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall, and Ernesto Laclau, John Frow challenges this key assumption. He argues that the field of culture now has multiple centres and multiple domains of value and that these are irreducible to a single scale. Intellectuals play the crucial role in the mediation of the cultural field, and their possession of cultural capital endows them with specific class interests which are distinct from those of the classes or groups for whom they claim to speak.

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