Cultural studies

may seem to be unbreakable, however cultural and societal barriers can strain the bond and bring unwanted emotions to the forefront of the relationship. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the strained relationships between mothers and daughters test the ideologies of American and Chinese cultures. Based on the perspective of four pairs of Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters, the author depicts conflicts that are caused by cultural obstacles between them. When…

Dick Hebdige’s used the term subculture to understand the style of Britain’s youth cultures. He understood subcultures to be symbolically separate themselves from the mass culture it should belong to. These subculture challenge the traditions and transforms the genre into more socially significant. The concept of subcultures can be found in folk music. The music is a complex systems which tries to socially disconnect from the dominant culture. African American folk music is a genre that is…

despise. Arguably, department stores minimize a person’s capability to act and think in a logical and self-governing manner. Adorno argues that “standardization develops due to the ability of the ‘people in power’ to regulate the manufacturing of cultural goods in order to try and gage and control what people like and want to buy to increase how much profit they make. Furthermore, he states that “under monopoly all mass culture is identical” (Adorno 1). Indeed, whether it be a sweater, a pair of…

What are the potential error for CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) versus oxygen in (OSA) obstructive sleep apnea? Most people with untreated OSA experience multiple episodes of hypoxemia sometimes more than hundred a night. Most patients declining CPAP treatment their doctor prescribe them oxygen for overnight use. This might help with ameliorate some risk of untreated sleep apnea. Some of the error that I notice was that that outcome measured on a continuous scale, the baseline…

Introduction In today’s culture, people are more likely to see other people belonging to a subculture. A subculture is defined as a group that has beliefs and behaviors that are different from the main group within a culture or society (pg. 50). My subculture being a gamer. A gamer being a person that plays game(s), from pc, to console, to portable gaming. But how can gaming be a subculture? What other things, other then playing videogames, need to do to become part of this diverse subculture.…

Cultural psychology is the study of the way traditions and practices come to shape the way people behave and think. The Schweder article’s purpose is to break down this principle and discuss the many complex aspects involved. The most interesting aspect of this paper is the description of how cultural psychology is the study of intentional worlds. Our world does not act as a concrete and stable aspect of the human psyche, instead it comes to shape us in numerous ways. It is virtually impossible…

Emotion is one of the most difficult aspects of the human condition to explain in its totality, yet its existence is thought to be one of the most fundamental parts of being human. The study of emotion has taken many forms, shifting the focus from facial expression, to language, to cultural history and beyond, varying not from discipline to discipline, but also from person to person. Strictly speaking, though the vague idea of emotion as a conscious experience of feelings resulting from…

changes within a group, individuals’ changes might vary significantly as a part of these collective changes. The theory emphasizes factors prior and during the process of acculturation (pre-arrival and post-arrival) as well as highlights group and cultural (i.e. political context) and social/psychological (social factors, language proficiency) variables that influence the acculturation experience (Berry, 2005). Within Berry’s model, the two dimensions of heritage-culture retention and…

international relations. Based on this, it was assumed that the threat of a state was another state. The focus of security studies mainly revolved around military capability of a state. The end of the Cold War, resulted in the transformation of the from a bipolar world to a unipolar one. States then started to look for new potential threats. The Copenhagen School of Security Studies broadens the concept of security to include non-state actors and aspects of the state such as the economy,…

years, not just among cultural theorists but among individuals. When one attempts to define these terms, they’re met with a range of difficulties; things like context and cultural hegemony need to be considered. With public and illegal art practices as reference points, the concepts of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and whether they’re culturally constructed will be explored. Context plays a very large part in determining whether something is considered ‘high’ or ‘low’ culture. In a study based in…