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Optional: Selected summaries in cultural studies
Here you will find an ever growing list of article summaries in cultural studies and other affiliated fields such as sociology, anthropology and media studies. Summaries here try to give a shortened version of the article in a manner that preserves main ideas and the structure of the article in a short and accessible text. Summaries of long articles are often divided into different part for the sake of convenience and links here take you to the first part of such article summaries. Article summaries here are additionally interconnected where relevant in order to allow for contextual learning.
Claude Levi-Strauss – The Structural Study of Myth
De Saussure – The Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Karl Marx – The German Ideology
Mary Douglas – Ritual Uncleanness
Maurice Halbwachs – "Historical Memory and Collective Memory"
Emile Durkheim – "The Genesis of the Notion of the Totemic Principle or Mana"
Emile Durkheim - "What is Social Fact?"
Emile Durkheim - Division of Labor in Society
Emile Durkheim - Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim - Moral Education
Gayatri Spivak / "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Jean Baudrillard / Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard / "The Structural Law of value and the Order of Simulacra"
Roman Jakobson - On Linguistic Aspects of Translation
Theodor Adorno - culture industry reconsidered
Louis Althusser: On ideology: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Roland Barthes / Rhetoric of the Image
Mikhail Bakhtin: "Carnival and Carnivalesque"
R.W. Connell – "Masculinities"
Paul Willis – Learning to Labor
Betty Friedan – "The Problem That Has No Name"
Susan Bordo – Reading the Male Body
Judith Butler / Gender Trouble
Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics of Space
Michel De Certeau - Walking in the City
Georg Simmel – The Metropolis and Mental Life
"Disjunction and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" Arjun Appadurai
Guy Debord/ Society of the Spectacle
John Berger – "Ways of Seeing"
"Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" - Laura Mulvey
Michel Foucault – Of Other Spaces (Heterotopia)
Fredric Jameson – Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Martin Heidegger – Building Dwelling Thinking
Clifford Geertz: "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
"Doing Gender" by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman
Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Norbert Elias – The Civilizing Process
Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber - "religious affiliation and social stratification
Max Weber - Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism
Clifford Geertz –"From the Native's Point of View: On the Nature of AnthropologicalUnderstanding"
Clifford Geertz - PersonTime and Conduct in Bali
Pierre Bourdieu – The Historical Genesis of the Pure Aesthetic
Marc Prensky - "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants"
Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction