Cultural Studies- Break the Status Quo
This past week I read the article "Exploring Cultural Studies" by Metasebia Woldemariam, who is actually a professor at Plymouth State University. The article dove into what cultural studies actually is and how it can also take on many perceptions. It also discusses the beginning of culture studies and how it has developed throughout the years to get to where it is now. In the rest of my blog I will go into what Woldemariam has brought up and discussed throughout this article. So lets get started! Cultural studies is not a topic that can simply be defined in a sentence or two. Rather, cultural studies is more defined as what it is not rather than what it is. When studying cultural studies it is perceived as an interdisciplinary study. It is not specific to one discipline, as anyone can study it. Woldemariam quotes Toby Miller saying that cultural studies is "a tendency across disciplines, rather than a discipline itself." This allows cultural studies to ...