Topic > Cultural Studies Essay - 942

Cultural studies focuses closely on how a given phenomenon relates to issues of ideology, race, social class, and/or gender. Cultural studies expresses concern with the practices of everyday life and the meaning behind everything. One of the main goals of cultural studies is to delve into what is known to be natural to society and society's strong beliefs; there will be examples of everyday life practices such as things we know naturally because society has given them meaning such as trees, PMS and biological determinism which society once believed was natural, these examples will show how and why it is important critically question these practices. Critical questioning involves studying the belief closely, dismantling it, and questioning it. Create different thoughts and expand belief knowledge. Everyone in the world is raised differently, they are raised to see things one way, while others may be raised to believe the opposite, not knowing which way is right or which is wrong. This would be known as the humanist theory. The beliefs and practices of humanism are so influenced in our culture that they have become natural to the world and become invisible, because it is invisible, no one thinks deeper into the belief. This is what we call “common sense”. A common example used of a humanist belief would be a tree. In a humanist view, the word tree and the real object are connected. Once a tree is mentioned, the qualities of a tree go straight into our heads, we all think the same thing because it has been implemented in our mind what a tree is. We would immediately think of an object that is tall, leafy and comes from the ground. While from the structuralist point of view a tree is a... medium of paper... Dichotomous logic is mainly based on the hierarchy of terms. The classification of terms causes one to become more privileged and the other term to become the more negative, less important one. Another theory that is considered when questioning the natural practice of society is the post-structuralism view. It is not an important topic to discuss as it relates to cultural studies. The post-structuralism view questions natural belief and makes it a broader issue to discuss and raises many questions for people. The post-structuralism view seeks to undo everything we know, confusing us and filling us with questions about what we already know from beliefs and practice within society. It creates a more interesting thought for our minds because it distorts what we thought naturally and forces us to question more about what we thought it actually meant.