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Cultural Studies and Modern Society: How Meaning Is Made, Shared, and Contested

Cultural Studies and Modern Society: How Meaning Is Made, Shared, and Contested

Aiguafreda, Quim

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General Sociology

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ISBN13: 9798171280178
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why do clothes, accents, films, food, celebrities, memes, and monuments become arguments about class, identity, morality, and power?

Cultural Studies and Modern Society explores how everyday culture shapes what people see as normal, valuable, respectable, authentic, desirable, or threatening.

Drawing on thinkers such as Stuart Hall, Roland Barthes, Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Benedict Anderson, Edward Said, and Theodor Adorno, the book examines representation, ideology, discourse, class, gender, race, nation, sexuality, popular culture, advertising, celebrity, consumption, subcultures, digital platforms, algorithms, and culture wars.

From luxury brands and television to beauty standards, national symbols, recommendation feeds, and online outrage, the book shows how ordinary cultural forms become loaded with social meaning-and why people so often disagree about what those meanings are.

It also explores how cultural authority is changing: from critics, broadcasters, publishers, and institutions to influencers, platforms, recommendation systems, metrics, and viral attention. In a world where visibility can be calculated, amplified, suppressed, or monetized, even the question of what becomes culturally important has acquired an algorithmic middleman.

Culture is everywhere. Unfortunately, so is interpretation.

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