Cultural Studies

High Culture

Anthropological Definition of Culture

Cultural Studies

Karl Marx

Political Economy

Mode of Production

Ruptures in Modes of Production

Capitalism

Stages of Capitalism (according to Marx)

Fordism

Consumption Culture

Post Fordism

Post-Industrial Society

Base-Superstructure (Marx)

Commodification

Class Consciousness

Industry of Culture

Antonio Gramsci

Counter-hegemony

Beliefs of Ferdinand de Saussure

Semiotics

Langue & Parole

Signs

Binary Opposition

Structuralism

Denotation & Connotation (Barthes)

Barthe's theory of Myth & Language

Polysemic Signs

Post-Structuralism

Encoding & Decoding

Jacques Derrida

Logocentrism

Phonocentrism

Différance

Deconstruction

Under Erasure

Michel Foucault

Discourse

Regimes of Truth

Knowledge and Power

Technologies of the Self

Disciplinary Technologies

Anthropological Discourse

Power and Visibility (Panopticon)

Manipulative Model (Construction)

Pluralist Model (media construction)

Hegemonic Model (media construction)

Ien Ang

Soap Opera Feminism

Active Audience Paradigm

Youth Cultures

Youth as a Moratorium

Moral Panic about Youth

Teddy Boys

Skinheads

Bricolage

Double Articulation of Youth

Female Subcultures

Homosexual Subcultures

Internet Subcultures

Subjectivity and Identity

Understanding the Self

Essentialism

Anti-Essentialism

Stuart Hall's 3 Conceptions of Identity (just name the 3)

Enlightenment Subject (Hall)

Cartesian Dualism

Sociological Subject (Hall)

Post-Modern Subject (Hall)

Stuart Hall's 5 Ruptures in the Ideology of Self

Freud's Identification

Mirror Phase (Lacan)

Decentering (Feminism)

Myth of the Interior

Anti-Essentialist Identity

Post-Humanism

Agency (and Problem of Agency)

Existentialism

First-Wave Feminism

Second-Wave Feminism

Simone de Beauvoir and the Second Sex

Third-Wave Feminism

Feminism

Patriarchy

Liberal and Socialist Feminism

Difference Feminism

Black or Post-Colonial Feminism

Post-Structuralist Feminism

Postfeminism

Oedipus Complex

Electra Complex

Phallocentrism

Judith Butler: Between Freud and Foucault

Performativity of Sex

Imaginary Nationality

Horizontal Relations

Problematization of Race/Ethnicity

Print-Nationalism

Global Community

Travelling Cultures (Clifford)

Diaspora

Orientalism

Fan Culture

Fan Fiction

Web 2.0

Citizen Journalism

Media Convergence

Transmedia Storytelling

Top-Down Convergence Culture

Bottom-Up Convergence Culture

Internet as a Creative Commons

Information Economy (Castells)