2.Culture and Culture studies文化学习.pptVIP

Lecture Two 1. Culture and Culture studies  2. Ancient Greece I.Culture and Culture studies  Culture The record of history, a study of man and civilization a course providing popular or regional knowledge of doing and thinking of human beings Culturology : Culture studies The science of culture, a study of man and civilization, a course providing data and facts from academic perspective. Popular culture (通俗文化） Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena that are preferred by an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society. mass culture（大众文化） mass culture - the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current western capitalist society that emerged and developed from the 20th century, under the influence of mass media. Media culture is associated with consumerism, and in this sense called alternatively consumer culture.13 Another alternative term for media culture is image culture” High culture 高雅文化（贵族文化） High culture is a term, now used in a number of different ways in academic discourse, whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture. In more popular terms, it is the culture of an elite such as the aristocracy or intelligentsia, but also defined as a broad cultural knowledge, as a way of transcending the class system. It is contrasted with the low culture or popular culture of, variously, the less well-educated II. Ancient Greece  Classical Greek Culture Ancient Greece is one of the three elements that are composed of the Western Culture.It is also the earliest source of the three. The brilliant and unique of Gre