Sentences with phrase «discipline of cultural studies»

The charges went higher and higher up the ladder of generality until the sex crime committed at UVA became a confirmation of the basic theory of privileged Western male oppression that is so widely subscribed to in the disciplines of cultural studies.»

Not exact matches

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

By refining its focus on «performance» as both cultural and aesthetic phenomena, the discipline formerly named «oral interpretation» has employed dramatistic and theatrical metaphors to broaden definitions of «texts,» «speakers,» «audiences,» and «events» (or sites) in the study of performance activity.

But today in our Third World contexts, for obvious reasons, theological enterprise needs to be nurtured by other disciplines such as social sciences, cultural anthropology, study of religions, political sciences, economy, etc..

This requires the mastery and use of the disciplines of the biblical scholar and the historian and the study of psychological, social, and cultural realities.

What some have called the «new cultural sociology» is an area in which questions of discourse and practice have most clearly risen to the surface.11 Work in this area has attempted to make the study of culture a more empirically grounded discipline.

Yet the vast majority of studies in the human - related sciences are not based on field research, and the most field - oriented disciplines, such as sociology and cultural anthropology, have been least receptive to the modern evolutionary perspective.

Respondents came from the whole range of disciplines: 57 % had a natural science, mathematics, or engineering background, with the remainder drawn from social sciences (5 %), language and cultural studies (16.3 %), economics (9.2 %), and law (4.5 %).

Future studies might show, for example, that a specified discipline has a high frequency of positive results largely because it has a «cultural tradition» of keeping negative results in drawers (or of dropping outliers, or of HARKing, etc...).

You'll learn a unique, practical, and eye - opening blend of eating psychology, holistic nutrition, mind body science, coaching skills, body - centered practices, cultural studies, transformational disciplines, and, for your future, business development training.

AIPCS is one of six highly prescriptive schools Whitman studied, where «noncognitive skills» — responsible behaviors such as self - discipline and cooperativeness — are part of the cultural capital the curriculum delivers.

In the pursuit of her creative and scholarly interventions she employs the methods and languages of a variety of disciplines including fine arts, art history, critical theory, cultural studies, geography, and anthropology.

Her fantastical and elaborate artwork is rooted in the disciplines of anthropology, mythology and cultural studies.

Charmaine Fernandez is a doctoral candidate in the discipline of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

Students are given the opportunity to work one - on - one with our accomplished faculty who are actively engaged in a range of disciplines and areas that include art and cultural theory, art history, film, video, architecture, digital media, print media, photography, performative studies, painting, spatial arts and related fields in the Humanities, Sciences and Engineering.