| Cultural Studies and Cultural Value Contributor(s): Frow, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 019871128X ISBN-13: 9780198711285 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1995 Annotation: Cultural Studies and Cultural Value is a major critique of the important new discipline of cultural studies. Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, reversing the traditional hierarchy of value, but leaving intact the polarity and the direct correlation of culture and class. Intellectuals play the crucial role in the mediation of the cultural field, and their possession of cultural capital endows them with specific class interests which are distinct from those of the classes or groups for whom they claim to speak. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - General - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 94-30667 |
| Lexile Measure: 1660 |
| Series: Cornell East Asia Series; 70 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.44" W x 8.42" (0.63 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cultural studies has generally organized itself around the opposition of high to low culture, reversing the traditional hierarchy of value, but leaving intact the polarity and the direct correlation of culture and class. Through detailed readings of the work of Pierre Bourieu, Michel de Certeau, Stuart Hall, and Ernesto Laclau, John Frow challenges this key assumption. He argues that the field of culture now has multiple centers and multiple domains of value and that these are irreducible to a single scale. Intellectuals play the crucial role in the mediation of the cultural field; their possession of cultural capital endows intellectuals with specific class interests which are distinct from those of the classes of groups for whom they claim to speak. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value seeks a revitalized and poststructuralist account of social class, a basis from which cultural studies can effect a much-needed reorientation. |