About this Study Set
This study set covers Cultural Studies through
20 practice questions.
A series of factual questions concerning the history, key figures, and milestones of Cultural Studies. Every question includes the correct answer so you can learn as you go — pick any format above to get started.
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Cultural Studies Foundations study set below.
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1
In what year was the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) established at the University of Birmingham?
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A
1964
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B
1958
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C
1972
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D
1980
2
Who was the first director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham?
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A
Stuart Hall
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B
Richard Hoggart
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C
Raymond Williams
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D
Edward Said
3
Raymond Williams published the seminal work 'Culture and Society' in which year?
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A
1950
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B
1958
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C
1963
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D
1970
4
How many volumes make up the 'Long Revolution' trilogy written by Raymond Williams?
5
Stuart Hall served as the editor of which influential journal starting in 1990?
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A
Cultural Studies
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B
The Guardian
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C
New Left Review
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D
Sociology
6
In which decade did the 'linguistic turn' begin to significantly influence Cultural Studies methodology?
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A
1940s
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B
1950s
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C
1960s
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D
1970s
7
The Birmingham School's 'Encoding/Decoding' model was formally articulated by Stuart Hall in which year?
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A
1973
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B
1978
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C
1980
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D
1984
8
Richard Hoggart's 'The Uses of Literacy' was first published in which year?
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A
1952
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B
1955
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C
1957
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D
1960
9
Edward Said's influential book 'Orientalism' was published in which year?
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A
1975
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B
1978
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C
1981
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D
1985
10
How many chapters are typically identified in the original 1978 edition of Edward Said's 'Orientalism'?
11
The Frankfurt School was originally established in which year as the Institut für Sozialforschung?
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A
1923
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B
1930
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C
1935
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D
1945
12
Who co-authored 'The Dialectic of Enlightenment' with Max Horkheimer?
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A
Theodor Adorno
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B
Herbert Marcuse
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C
Walter Benjamin
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D
Jurgen Habermas
13
In what year did Michel Foucault publish 'The Order of Things' (Les Mots et les choses)?
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A
1960
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B
1966
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C
1970
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D
1975
14
Pierre Bourdieu's 'Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste' was first published in French in which year?
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A
1970
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B
1979
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C
1984
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D
1990
15
How many 'types' of capital does Pierre Bourdieu categorize in his sociological framework?
16
Antonio Gramsci wrote his 'Prison Notebooks' while incarcerated between which years?
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A
1920-1926
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B
1926-1937
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C
1930-1940
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D
1935-1945
17
In the 1960s, what was the primary academic focus of the 'Birmingham School' regarding British working-class culture?
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A
High art
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B
Mass media
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C
Subcultures
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D
Political economy
18
Judith Butler published 'Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity' in which year?
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A
1985
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B
1990
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C
1993
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D
1999
19
The journal 'Screen', influential in British Cultural Studies, began publication in which year?
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A
1965
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B
1971
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C
1977
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D
1980
20
How many main sections compose the 'Cultural Studies' anthology edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (1992)?
