Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy founded Cultural Studies.

Evidence

The project of The Uses of Literacy , as we know, was many years in gestation. Originally planned as an analysis of the new forms of mass publishing, the radical innovation represented by Part I —the attempt to contextualize this in a deeper “reading” of the culture of their readers and audiences—was only subsequently put in place. However, by its publication in 1957, its general intention was unmistakable. It attempted to provide a complex answer to the questions: What were the relations between attitudes in the popular papers and magazines and the working-class readers to whom they were typically addressed? More urgently, how were the newer, more commercially driven forms of mass communications changing older working-class attitudes and values? What, in short, were the “uses” to which this new kind of “literacy” was being put? — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 142 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Hoggart’s landmark question asked how mass communication changed working-class values (similarity 0.89)
• Four mid-1950s books formed the break defining Cultural Studies’ founding moment. (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural Studies made audiences’ active role and cultural politics into common sense (similarity 0.82)
• Audiences bring their own cultures to consumption, so media effects are never automatic (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural studies scholarship examines culture and class through theoretical frameworks (similarity 0.80)
• Viewing mass-culture consumers as passive dupes is an unsocialist position (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural Studies made once-contested premises into today’s unstated scholarly common sense (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural Studies emerged from a literary rather than economic tradition (similarity 0.78)
• Hoggart, Williams, and Thompson pioneered ethnographic approaches to studying popular culture (similarity 0.78)
• Mass commercial culture is produced for workers, not by workers (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hoggart, Williams, and Thompson pioneered ethnographic approaches to studying popular culture #expands (0.80)
• Cultural Studies’ founding texts were acts of recovery of prior traditions #expands (0.70)
• Hoggart’s landmark question asked how mass communication changed working-class values #expands (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 142
• Cultural Studies made audiences’ active role and cultural politics into common sense #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 34
• Cultural Studies evolved through critical engagements with Marxism, feminism, and race. #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 128
• Cultural studies scholarship examines culture and class through theoretical frameworks #expands (0.60)
• Four mid-1950s books formed the break defining Cultural Studies’ founding moment. #qualifies (0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 182