Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies: Decoding Cultural Oppression

Globalization: Relation between Local Identity and Cultural Attitudes among Academic Young Persons of Yazd

The study of globalization in contemporary world is one of main concerns in cultural studies. This problem especially in relation with young people has more importance, therefore the study of globalization&#39s cultural effects among young generation, especially academic young as a problem is scientifically researchable. This study has been used theories of Ronald Robertson and Stuart Hall. Thi...

Part One Culture and Cultural Studies

Economic Valuation of Cultural Goods (Case Study: Isfahan City of Arts)

In today’s world, no one can deny the expansion of economic influence in the various aspects of social life and economization of immaterial issues of social life is becoming more obvious every day. The valuation of cultural goods, as one of the most important economic aspects related to arts and culture, is chosen to be considered in this study. The necessity of considering the economic valuat...

Strength in numbers? Cognitive reappraisal tendencies and psychological functioning among Latinos in the context of oppression.

The typically positive relationship between cognitive reappraisal and psychological functioning may be nullified for Latinos embedded within multiple contexts of oppression (Perez & Soto, 2011). Multiply oppressive contexts are characterized by exposure to oppression at a societal level (distal oppression), in the immediate environment (proximal oppression), and at an individual level (personal...

(Post)hegemony and the Promise of Populism: Reflections on the Politics of Our Times

Hegemony is a term both elusive and recurrent. It provides a theory of the social for a world in which all universalizing truth narratives have lost their fantasmatic hold over our lives and, in their withdrawal, we are forced to confront the fictions that they in fact always represented. In a certain sense, hegemony theory is the fiction of social fiction; a fiction designed to account for the...