Cultural Studies made audiences’ active role and cultural politics into common sense

Evidence

Cultural studies also has far more modest objectives than other traditions. It does not seek to explain human behavior in terms of the laws that govern it or to dissolve it into the structures that underlie it; rather, it seeks to understand it. Cultural studies does not attempt to predict human behavior; rather, it attempts to diagnose human meanings. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 290 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Common sense is a historical construct with changing ideological contents.; Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy founded Cultural Studies.; Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 290 (+2 more)

Related

• Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior (similarity 0.84)
• Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy founded Cultural Studies. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural Studies made once-contested premises into today’s unstated scholarly common sense (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural science should analyze the ordinary communicative products of contemporary life (similarity 0.81)
• Hoggart, Williams, and Thompson pioneered ethnographic approaches to studying popular culture (similarity 0.79)
• Hoggart’s work resembles ethnographic techniques such as participant observation to provide an insider view (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Cultural studies aims to understand meanings rather than explain or predict behavior #expands (0.60) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 290
• Hoggart, Williams, and Thompson pioneered ethnographic approaches to studying popular culture #corroborates (0.55)