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social science subjects > sociology > social theory > British social theory > cultural marxism and British cultural studies
social science subjects > sociology > social theory > cultural theory > cultural marxism and British cultural studies
social science subjects > sociology > social theory > Marxist and neo-Marxist theory > cultural marxism and British cultural studies
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cultural marxism and British cultural studies  

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  • Many different versions of cultural studies have emerged in the past decades. While during its dramatic period of global expansion in the 1980s and 1990s, cultural studies was often identified with the approach to culture and society developed by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, in Birmingham, England, their sociological, materialist, and political approaches to culture had predecessors in a number of currents of cultural Marxism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Cultural Marxism and British Cultural Studies]

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