Culture
The term culture is a difficult term to explain, there is no correct definition. Ramond William, an anthropologist-who centres on everyday meanings (values, norms and materials), is considered a crucial moment in the course of cultural studio. Williams stresses that ordinary lived character of culture as ‘a whole way of life’. He was concerned with the working class’s experience and their active construction of culture (Storey, J, page 1-6, 2009).
William proposes that there are three definitions for culture. Firstly, William suggests that culture refers to ‘a general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development’. In other words, culture is the same with what structuralists and post structuralists call signifying practices. The second definition of culture is suggested to be ‘a particular way of life’, whether it is of people, a group or a certain way of life during a specific period. This definition of culture allows people to speak of practices, such as celebration of Christmas and youth sub-cultures, which is known as lived cultures. Finally, William’s third definition suggests that culture can refer to ‘the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity’, who’s primary function is to signify, to produce or to be the occasion for the production of meaning. In short, it allows …show more content…
Ideology is a system, with its own logic, of representations is perceived as a practice which is lived as alters the material world. Althusser’s work has four parts that explain his view on ideology. His work is that ideology has the general function of constituting the real constituting subject. Ideology as misrecognition of the real conditions of existence is false; they are lived experiences, not false. Finally, it involves the reproduction of social foundations and their relations of power (Barker, C, page 58-78,
The term culture is a difficult term to explain, there is no correct definition. Ramond William, an anthropologist-who centres on everyday meanings (values, norms and materials), is considered a crucial moment in the course of cultural studio. Williams stresses that ordinary lived character of culture as ‘a whole way of life’. He was concerned with the working class’s experience and their active construction of culture (Storey, J, page 1-6, 2009).
William proposes that there are three definitions for culture. Firstly, William suggests that culture refers to ‘a general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development’. In other words, culture is the same with what structuralists and post structuralists call signifying practices. The second definition of culture is suggested to be ‘a particular way of life’, whether it is of people, a group or a certain way of life during a specific period. This definition of culture allows people to speak of practices, such as celebration of Christmas and youth sub-cultures, which is known as lived cultures. Finally, William’s third definition suggests that culture can refer to ‘the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity’, who’s primary function is to signify, to produce or to be the occasion for the production of meaning. In short, it allows …show more content…
Ideology is a system, with its own logic, of representations is perceived as a practice which is lived as alters the material world. Althusser’s work has four parts that explain his view on ideology. His work is that ideology has the general function of constituting the real constituting subject. Ideology as misrecognition of the real conditions of existence is false; they are lived experiences, not false. Finally, it involves the reproduction of social foundations and their relations of power (Barker, C, page 58-78,