Cultural Studies Previous Year UGC-NET English

1. What was the centre set up for studying culture at the University of Birmingham called?

2. Which of the following qualify for the label ‘cultural intermediary’ in the context of a commercial film?

(a) The film magazine columnist
(b) The director
(c) Fan clubs
(d) The producer

3. Which of these are true of Raymond Williams’ “Culture and Society”?

(a) It critiques the idea of high culture.
(b) It overlooks the idea of high culture.
(c) It defines culture as a way of life.
(d) It equates culture with science.

4. Which of these are generally taken to be true of cultural studies?

(a) It is politically engaged.
(b) It privileges text over context.
(c) It has a symbiotic relationship with formalism.
(d) It studies the means of production of a text.

5. Which of the following is true of mass media?

6. Who among the following considers a text as a ‘site of struggle between authority and popular culture’?

7. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: Comparative literature is a study of different cultures, nations and genres, and it explores the inherent relationship between literature and other forms of cultural exploration.

Statement II: In the study of literature and culture, the importance of methodology is secondary.

8. Stuart Hall belongs to ______________ school of cultural studies.

9. Who among the following is NOT a member of the Frankfurt School?

10. The phrase “structure of feeling” is attributed to:

11. Who among the following were revaluing ‘the masses’ as sources and subjects of literature?

12. The subject matter of Cultural Studies as it emerged as a ‘proto-discipline’ in the 1960s, was predominantly exploration of:

13. What does the abbreviated term CCCS stand for in the context of cultural studies?

14. Identify the work which has NOT been authored by the famous cultural critic Raymond Williams:

15. Which of the following are correctly matched?

A) Jonathan Culler – Culture and Society
B) Raymond Williams – Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
C) Terry Eagleton – Criticism and Ideology
D) Walter Benjamin – Illuminations
E) Stanley Fish – The Implied Reader

16. The concept of the public sphere plays a particularly important role in the work of:

17. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall has written the following:

A) “Encoding/decoding”
B) “The Rediscovery of ‘Ideology’: Return of the Repressed in Media Culture and Communication Studies”
C) “The Raw and the Cooked”
D) “What is Digital Humanities?”
E) “Culture Industry”

18. What is the correct sequence of the following texts authored by Raymond Williams?

A) The Long Revolution
B) Culture and Society
C) Marxism and Literature
D) Writing in Society
E) The Politics of Modernism

19. Facts about the Frankfurt School include the following:

A) It was founded in Frankfurt in 1925.
B) Adorno and Horkheimer were its two members.
C) The School established the term ‘Critical Theory’.
D) It had strong ties with the thinkers of the Moscow Linguistic Circle.
E) It was forced into exile with the ascendancy of Nazism in Germany.

20. Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.

Assertion (A): Scholars working in the field of cultural studies maintain that ‘culture’ in cultural studies is neither aesthetic nor humanist in emphasis, but political.

Reason (R): The implication of the above is that the object of study in cultural studies is ‘high art’ and the study of the exalted literary canon.

21. Who along with Richard Hoggart and Stuart Hall was one of the founding figures of the school of thought now known as British Cultural Studies?

22. Arrange the publication of the following books in chronological order:

A) The Location of Culture
B) The Future of the Race
C) Black Literature and Literary Theory
D) The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
E) Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

23. According to Andrew Milner in “Re-Imagining Cultural Studies”, of the four important kinds of meanings that Raymond Williams attaches to the word ‘culture’ in his early work, which three remain in play in Keywords?

A) an individual habit of mind
B) the state of intellectual development of a whole society
C) the arts as a whole
D) the way of life of a group or people
E) elitism

24. Which influential cultural theorist stated the following regarding the formation and development of British cultural studies?

“What is important are the significant breaks – where old lines of thought are disrupted, older constellations displaced, and elements, old and new, are regrouped around a different set of premises and themes.”

25. Which of the following books is NOT written by Raymond Williams?

26. According to Stuart Hall, which of these is generally accepted to be true of Cultural Studies as it was practised at the University of Birmingham in the UK?

A) It sought to strengthen the barrier between high culture and low culture
B) It sought to privilege the study of the text at the cost of context
C) It could accommodate the study of the lives of working-class people
D) It sought to promote readings based on social and political contexts
E) It was essentially apolitical

27. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works were published:

(A) Culture and Society
(B) Culture and Anarchy
(C) To Hell with Culture
(D) Studies in Dying Culture
(E) Notes towards the Definition of Culture

28. Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

Reason (R): This is mainly because several different though related meanings have emerged at particular moments throughout its long history.

29. Name the author/writer who is not associated with British Cultural Studies.

30. Arrange the chronological sequence in which the following works of Richard Hoggart were published:

(A) An Imagined Life
(B) The Uses of Literacy
(C) Higher Education: Demand and Response
(D) A Local Habitation
(E) A Sort of Clowning

31. Which of the following is not true about Raymond Williams’ views on culture?

32. Who among the following is not associated with Cultural Imperialism?

33. Which of the following assertions is/are not true in the context of culture industry?

(A) The term ‘culture industry’ was used by the Frankfurt School to describe the operations of mass media.
(B) The dominant capitalist class instils its values and beliefs in the minds of the working-class people.
(C) The word ‘industry’ signifies the production of cultural products for mass consumption.
(D) The authentic culture arising from the working class is preserved and protected.
(E) The mass culture thus produced induces activism and critical thinking among the youth.