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MC51005B Culture and Cultural Studies

Length: 2 x 1000 word essays

Submission date: Monday 14^th April midday 2025 (Questions released 31^st March midday 2025)

Take Home Exam

Answer TWO questions

Use reading from this module to answer these questions. You can refer to media, culture, or personal experience. Please look at the resources in the assessment section of the VLE for support, including guidance on how to write the essays.  

1. How can British Cultural Studies help make sense of ‘culture’?

2. Why is ‘intersectionality’ an important analytical tool?

3. Write an essay investigating the concept of ‘Ideology’.  

4. Discuss how the concept of ‘hegemony’ works, using one example.

5. In what ways does representation produce meaning?

6. Stuart Hall argues that ‘identity is always a never-completed process of becoming’. Write an essay exploring this statement.

7. Examine how gender is reproduced, using one contemporary example.  

8. To what extent is masculinity in crisis?

9. Analyse an aspect of queer culture.  

10.  What is the relationship between identity and generation?

11. ‘I would do without theory if I could. The problem is I can’t.’ (Stuart Hall) Choose one key concept from the module and analyse how it helps to explain an aspect of culture OR personal experience.

12. In what ways are social justice and music connected?

13. Analyse a contemporary youth culture.