cultural studies
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academic field of critical theory and literary criticism
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic major
- Subclass of
- anthropology
- Has part
- Arabic studies
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- different from
- history of art
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- topic's main category
- Category:Cultural studies
- Commons category
- Cultural studies
- Classification of Instructional Programs code
- 05.0299
- is the study of
- culture
- practiced by
- cultural studies scholar
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cultural studies or cultural theory is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices relate to wider systems of power associated with, or operating through, social phenomena. These include ideology, class structures, national formations, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and generation. Employing cultural analysis, cultural studies views cultures not as fixed, bounded, stable, and discrete entities, but rather as constantly interacting and changing sets of practices and processes.
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