Cultural studies - 01 midterm

Superstructure

∆ = Legal and Political Superstructure (property relations, system of

governance, etc.) as well as Religious, Aesthetic, or Philosophical

elements: that is, Ideological Form

scholar: Marx and Engels

Mode of production

∆ = combo of relations of production (how the work place organizes relationships to other at works / bourgeoisie, prolétariat) and material productive force (what society has to make stuff)

Base - how it defines ?

scholar : Marx and Engels

legal and political superstructures

religious, aesthetic, and philosophical elements

ideology as false consciousness

∆ = misleading beliefs that obscure how things really are

→ serves interest of leading / dominant group

Marx and Engels argue : ruling ideas of world = ruling ideas of dom. class

ideology as a terrain of struggle

repression

the unconscious

the dream work

condensation

displacement

latent content

manifest content

secondary revision

Oedipus complex

Saussure’s model

Signifier:

Signified:

Sign:

Barthes’ model

Form:

Concept:

Signification:

Repressive hypothesis

scholar :

∆ =

contextually =

mass culture

∆ =

sholar:

culture industry

scholar :

∆ =

contextually:

mass culture as a woman

scholar:

∆ =

contextually :

culture as a whole way of life

hegemony

∆ =

contextually :

Repressive state apparatus

scholar:

∆ =

contextually :

ideological state apparatus

scholar:

∆ =

contextually :

interpellation

scholar:

∆ =

contextually :

ideology

∆ = system of ideas