Cultural Studies and Social Theory

Media Culture ◽  
2003 ◽  
pp. 18-19
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Theory

scholarly journals Editors’ Introduction: Cultural Studies and Intersectionality as Intellectual Practice

Lateral ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie A Jones ◽  
Eero Laine ◽  
Chris Alen Sula
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Social

As a “critical social theory,” intersectionality already lies at the roots of contemporary cultural studies, and the best work in cultural studies has the capacity for or is already engaging with intersectionality as method. This is work that accounts for the multifaceted nature of subjects, institutions, processes, and structures as it asks its questions about cultural objects, experience, ideology, history, or discourses. Intersectionality as, along with dialectical materialism, a core intellectual practice of cultural studies, offers expanded possibilities for political traction, relevance to the world and people’s lives, and transformative potential. We see models of such work throughout this issue, including with part two of a special forum on emergent analytics of critical humanities.

Cultural Studies/Asian Studies: Alternatives, Intersections, and Contradictions in Asian Social Science

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Clammer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
World Religions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

AbstractThe social sciences in Asia face a peculiar theoretical challenge. Heirs to ancient civilizations and traditions of thought and cradles to all of the great world religions, they nevertheless perceive themselves as suffering from a "theoretical deficit". High theory is almost entirely Western and in fact largely European in provenance. This essay is directed to the possibility of constructing an Asian variety of cultural studies as a response to the hegemony of European social theory, and as an attempt to redress the balance of theory-power in the world intellectual economy.

The sense of obligation is culturally modulated

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bender
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Sense Of Obligation ◽  
Cross Cultural Studies

Abstract Tomasello argues in the target article that, in generalizing the concrete obligations originating from interdependent collaboration to one's entire cultural group, humans become “ultra-cooperators.” But are all human populations cooperative in similar ways? Based on cross-cultural studies and my own fieldwork in Polynesia, I argue that cooperation varies along several dimensions, and that the underlying sense of obligation is culturally modulated.

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