Common Ground: Connected by Culture
Despite differences among subcultures, groups, and individuals, all members of a society are connected by a vast array of shared cultural components such as values, beliefs, traditions, and language.
Music Moves the World: The Power and Passion of Rhythm, Melody, and Dance
This program travels to both developing and industrialized countries to capture culture-defining rhythms and melodies and explain the important roles they play in human society. With stops in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, t...
Human Geography: Making Sense of Planet Earth - Understanding Human Culture
About this title: Humans are among the most social animals on the planet. We need a shared system of language, beliefs, norms and values to survive and mature from birth to adulthood. In short, everybody needs a culture. In this program, Dr. Murphy ...
Core Concepts in Sociology
Sociology, in a nutshell, is about why people behave in the ways that they do, and the key premise is that behavior is shaped by the contexts in which people live. This multi-segment program introduces the sociological concepts of personal, social, ...
Cultural Illiteracy
Cultural illiteracy among today’s teenagers threatens the fabric of society, according to Professor E.D. Hirsch, Jr., author of the best-seller, Cultural Literacy. Hirsch defines cultural literacy as familiarity with the common knowledge literate ...
Cuba: The Next Revolution
In Cuba, Professor Gates finds out how the culture, religion, politics, and music of this island are inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th-century sugar industry, and how race and ra...
Representation & the Media
In this illustrated lecture, Stuart Hall examines gender and racial stereotyping in the media. He focuses on the concept of "representation" to show how reality is never experienced directly, but is instead filtered through symbolic cultural catego...
Race: the floating signifier
Arguing against biological interpretations of racial difference, Stuart Hall asks viewers to pay close attention to the cultural processes by and through which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties ...
The Origins of Cultural Studies
In this classic 1989 lecture, now available for the first time, world-renowned cultural theorist Stuart Hall traces the social, intellectual, and institutional environment from which cultural studies emerged. An invaluable introduction to the issue...