Culture as a subject of cultural studies

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The Subject of cultural studies allows you to see the history of the problem of cultural character, to develop skills for use in life categorial framework provides the necessary knowledge about the cultural values, helps to understand their cultural and national traditions.

Culture as a subject of cultural studies is viewed from different positions, because it is a complex concept, including how the artificial environment of human existence, the same  and self-realization.

The Object and purpose of cultural studies in the transmission of accumulated cultural knowledge, but also they give the opportunity to expand your horizons.

The Term cultural studies into use introduced scientist L. white. He first tried to create a General theory of culture.

The Subject of cultural studies is a complex socio-humanitarian discipline that aspires to develop a system of knowledge concerning the culture, considering it as a holistic phenomenon. The subject and objectives of the cultural  studies  aiming at the description of culture, the analysis of various crops and their comparison, knowledge of intercultural communication and the explanation of the origins of specific and shared volatile and stable in culture.

The Subject of cultural studies is currently the integrative field of knowledge. The basis of cultural studies of science – history, archaeology, art history, Ethnography, etc. Cultural studies as social Sciences and Humanities considers the overall value of the multi-faceted cultural phenomenon, including the ways his research. Culture as a subject of cultural studies is the aim of the studies leading to understanding of their own and other cultures, in this case the subject is the fullness of public life. Therefore, cultural studies is the interaction of different elements of culture: norms, traditions, customs, values, cultural codes, social institutions, ideologies, technologies, etc.

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Cultural studies is based on the unity of empirical and theoretical knowledge, because it considers not only specific cultural processes and phenomena, but the ultimate abstraction. The subject of cultural studies includes both applied and fundamental research.

Here are the main tasks of cultural studies:

•          the analysis of culture;

•          study of culture;

•          identification of interrelations between the elements of culture;

•          the study of cultural units and typologies of cultures.

•          resolve the problems identified socio-cultural dynamics;

•          the study of cultural communications and codes.

The practice of cultural studies find its use in management and mass communications.

In cultural studies used the following methods:

•          empirical - the collection and description of factual material;

•          comparative – providing the possibility to compare the phenomenon of the cultural complex in the historical context;

•          structural-functional & ndash; allow us to decompose the study of a cultural object into its component parts and identify their internal communication;

•          genetic - helps to understand the studied phenomenon from the standpoint of its emergence and subsequent development;

•          semiotic – determined by the understanding of culture as a symbolic mechanism to transfer experience from generation to generation as a symbolic system that provides a social inheritance.

Cultural studies includes several sections and a complex science.

-              Philosophy of culture;

-              Theory of culture;

-              Sociology of culture;

-              History of culture;

-              Cultural anthropology.

Thus, cultural studies not only describes the cultural values accumulated by mankind, but comprehends them.


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