A collection of essays, which focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the auspices of the Centre.

This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the auspices of the Centre. This volume is split into seven thematic sections that are introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall. The thematic sections are: Literature and Society; Popular Culture and Youth Subculture; Media; Women's Studies and Feminism; Race; History; and, Education and Work.

Preface Stuart Hall
Introduction Co-authored by editorial team
Literature and Society
Introduction: Stuart Laing
Passeron, JC: 'Intro to French edition of Uses of Literacy'
Unauthored: 'Literature and Society: Mapping the Field'
Tolson, Andrew: 'Reading Literature as Culture'
Louvre, Alf: 'Notes on a Theory of Genre'
1973
Laing, Stuart: 'Walter Greenwood: Working-Class Writer'
Holderness, Graham: 'Lawrence, Leavis and Culture'
Sparks, Colin: 'The Abuses of Literacy'
Mellor, Adrian: 'The Hidden Method: Lucien Goldmann and the Sociology of Literature'
Popular Culture and Youth subculture
Introduction: John Clarke
Hall, S: 'The Hippies and American moment'
Dyer, R: 'The Meaning of Tom Jones'
Jones, Bryn: 'The Politics of Popular Culture'
Cohen, Stanley: 'Breaking Out, Smashing Up and the Social Context of Aspiration'
Jefferson, T and Clarke, J.: 'Working Class Youth Cultures'
McRobbie, Angela and Garber, Jenny 'Girls and Subcultures: An Exploration'
Clarke, Gary: 'Defending Ski Jumpers: A critique of theories of youth culture'
Media
Introduction: Dave Morley
Brunt, Rosalind: 'The Spectacular World of Whicker'
Whicker, Alan: 'Response'
Connell, Ian 'TV &
the Social Contract'
Hobson, Dorothy: 'Housewives and Radio'
Hall, S., Clarke, J., Critcher, C., Jefferson, &
Roberts, B.: 'Newsmaking and Crime'
The Media Group: 'The 'Unity' of Current Affairs Television'
Hall, Stuart: 'The Structured Communication of Events'
Hall, Stuart: 'Encoding/Decoding in TV Discourse'
Morley, Dave: 'Reconceptualising the Audience: Towards an ethnography of audience'
Women's Studies and Feminism
Introduction: Janice Winship
Butcher, H. et al 'Images of Women in the Media
Women's Studies Group: 'Relations of Production, Relations of Reproduction'
Brunsdon, Charlotte: 'By Nature Women are Inclined to be Personal'
Winship, Janice: 'Woman: An Ideology of Femininity'
Hobson, Dorothy: 'Housewives: Isolation and Oppression'
Burniston, S., Mort, F., &
Weedon, C.: 'Psychoananlysis and the cultural acquisition of sexuality and subjectivity'
Griffin, C.: 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Images of Young Women in the Labour Market'
From 'Race' to Racism
Intro: Hazel Carby
Jefferson, T and Clarke, J: 'Down These mean Streets: The Meaning of Mugging'
Hebdige, Dick: 'Reggae, Rastas and Rudies'
Green, Andy: 'On the Political Economy of Black Labour and the Racial Structuring of the Working Class in England'
Carby, Hazel: 'Multicultural Fictions'
Solomos, J. Findlay, B., Jones, S. and Gilroy, P.: 'The Organic Crisis of British Capitalism and Race: The experience of the seventies'
Errol Lawrence 'Just Plain Common Sense: The roots of racism'
'White Women Listen'
History
Introduction: Richard Johnson
Johnson, Richard: 'Economy, Culture and Concept: Three Approaches to Marxist History'
Cultural History Group: 'Out of the People: The Politics of Containment 1935-45'
Trevor: 'The History of a Working-class Methodist Chapel'
Grimshaw, Roger: 'Comment'
McLennan, Gregor: 'Ideology and Consciousness: Some problems in Marxist Historiography'
Taylor, Pam: 'Women Domestic Servants 1919-1939'
Popular Memory Group: 'What do we mean by popular memory?'
Education and Work
Introduction: Paul Willis
CCCS Education Group [Finn, D., Grant, Neil, &
Johnson, R.]: 'Social Democracy, Education and The Crisis'
CCCS Education Group [Steve baron, Dann Finn, Neil Grant, Michael Green, Richard Johnson] Perspectives on Schooling and Politics Unpopular Education
Clare, Mariette: 'Ideologies of Adult Literacy: Politics and Practice'
Avis, James: 'The Strange Fate of Progressive Education'
Willis, Paul: 'How Working Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs'