Cultural studies

The title of this article is “Contraindications in a Hip-Hop World: An Ethnographic Study of Black Women Hip-Hop Fans in Washington, DC.,” written by Tia L. Smith-Cooper. This article was published with UMI Microform in June 2002. In this article, Tia L. Smith-Cooper is scrutinizing the current (in 2002) problem of male rappers objectifying females and women still being content with this fact and continuing to be hip-hop fans. Not only does she attack male rappers, she also attacks female…

mediatization, for instance). The course allowed me to develop a comprehensive literature review on journalism studies and specially on the field theory (Benson & Neveu, 2005; Bourdieu, 1993). Indeed, my final project’s aim was to outline a proposal to explore and analyze Chilean investigative journalism in the post-dictatorship period (1990-2015) in the light of Bourdieu’s contribution to media studies. Specifically, the Bourdieu’s concepts of the journalistic field, the habitus, and the idea…

takes more associations and get hidden behind of the visual to a much profounder sensual space (p. 94). In the perception of space and man, the author deals with the similar informations but from a dissimilar perspective of view comparing with the study of animals such as how man assembles the space as fixed or semi-fixed together with the various distances he applies in networking with others. To help to understand these challenging ideas, Hall defined the space and distance in human society by…

theory. When looking at the study done by Baumer and Gustafson, the quality of their study is very sound. The researches find a way to measure the different parts of Merton’s theory, such as legitimate employment and other things that would be considered blocked opportunity and crime, and measure them (Baumer & Gustafson, 2007). Baumer and Gustafson also give solid background information and details about their approach on how they carry out their study and previous studies done before them.…

he third successful volunteer for my research study was Mr. Noah (a pseudonym). Mr. Noah who identified his , name , age and affiliated institution in the optional fields of the informed consent form is a professor holding a PHD and has been teaching for more than 25 years. However, he was selected for the study because he spent significant years teaching in city college of Chicago (CCC). He also has a good experience in dealing with student from multicultural backgrounds in different…

Cultural diversity is in our workplace and schools we may encounter stereotypes while communicating with others even though we have different opinions toward their cultures values and beliefs. We can learn from another culture but we have to respect their…

The track that I chose for my final project is Biological Influences on Personality. The chosen topic is Temperament. Personality is used to determine the differences in behavior patterns. Our personalities are what makes us unique to everyone else. A person’s personality continues to develop throughout their life. One of the factors that influence our personality is our heredity. Heredity refers to the genetic inheritance we develop from our parents. Another influence on our personality is…

seen in Gish Jen’s short story, “Who’s Irish.” In the story, the cultural conflicts between the traditional Chinese lifestyle and the more modern “Western” lifestyle are brought up and are dominant in the text. To be specific, the cultural clash between the grandmother in the story, who is an older, more traditional Chinese woman, and her daughter who married an Irish man and has a child who grew up in a more western society. The cultural clashing, the differences and the disagreements…

The author gives us three ways to understand the materiality of culture: actor-network theory, cultural studies, and material culture studies (Storey, 2015). After carefully reviewing all three approaches, I see that material cultural studies are the most productive path for critical thinking about my site and its contents. Interacting with the games at Playdium would not be possible without the careful aesthetic design…

chimpanzees, but previously bonobos did not show a cultural diversity in use of tools as much as their chimpanzee siblings. In studies of chimpanzees for example, they have been able to use branches to dig for tubers or turn them into spears in order to hunt for small prosimians. The study by Roffman had two bonobos that grew up in a human environment and had the ability to use a range of early homo type stone tools in order to extract food. The study even went further by teaching the bonobos to…