Institutional theory of art

Staurt Hall was Inspired by Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1958, 1970), Raymond Williams' Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution (1961), and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963), the birth of British cultural studies is generally associated with the 1964 founding of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham by Hoggart and Stuart Hall. Over the next two decades, as education in England faced severe economic hardship, cultural studies…

Planning theory developed from a range of disciplines. It borrows ideas from economics, sociology, political science, psychology and geography. From these disciplines, planning has adopted ideas which are applied to the planning process to arrive at normative prescriptions of how planning is to be done. According to Alexander, planning practice needs a theory of what planning is or should be, and theory provides scientific explanation and description of facts. Planning used to be viewed as an…

It began as a reaction to the stale religious belief of the traditional institutional churches. It forced religion out of state sponsored churches and into underground groups. Published in 1799, one of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s earliest books, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is majorly influenced by Pietism. He…

Contrasting the student’s way of mapping campus and the initiations way of mapping campus revealed that the experience of the students I spoke with rarely lined up with the image promoted by Tulane admissions. In class we discussed Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the social production of space and I originally interpreted the concepts of social practice and representational space was extremely static. Initially I thought of institutions/people in power creating both the representations of space and…

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Laurel Hollow, New York, is now one of the première non-profit, biological research institutes, specializing in cancer, quantitative biology, neuroscience, and genomics. It has advanced from a school that primarily trained high school and college teachers, to a key developer in molecular genetics and biology, as well as an institution that emphasizes educating the new generation of scientists and the public. According to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…

This first high society of humans was located in what is known as "Mesopotamia"; the origin of the name comes from a Greek name meaning "land between the rivers." Mesopotamian society prevailed as a combined result of various religious, institutional, and historical factors. The reality of these factors occurred within the time indeed to establish the basis for this first civilization. Mesopotamia is often referred to as the cradle of civilizations because it was the first region where early…

Michel Foucault claimed, ‘Political theory has never ceased to be obsessed with the person of the sovereign’ (Foucault and Gordon, 1980). In saying this, he critiques Western political thought for the focus scholars have collectively held on sovereign power, or the ‘macro-level’ consisting of governmental figures and institutions in formal power over a nation-state. In The Politics of Truth he elaborates: It seems to me that there has been in the modern Western world … a certain way of thinking…

effects that did aid in later transitions. However, the parent’s participation in such activities was found to be greater than the individual child’s participation and greatest when both parents and children participated. This supports Bourdieu’s theory of the habitus . What this means for first-generation college students is that they may be at a disadvantage because they are more likely to have lacked resources in their adolescence to support participation in activities deemed “highbrow” than…

almost everything, like politics in hobbies. Then one day, she realizes maybe they aren’t so different after all. Since her dad likes guns, she thought that he was very uncreative and not artistic. She then realizes, that making cannons was his art. Everything is art, including making canons. Her dad had been creative all along, just in his own way. Upon realizing their similarities, they were able to get along much better. Another material that related to the idea of similarity is “We Wear The…

Jewish philosopher and political theorist who fled Germany during World War II and relocated to America. Marcuse was one of the primary theorists of the Frankfurt School and is credited as being one of the founders of Critical Theory. In his essay Marcuse use critical theory to critique the capitalistic society in America and global dominion. The essay is portioned into four main areas which are A Biological Foundation for Socialism, The New Sensibility, Subverting Forces-in Transition, and…