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 \n·  Describe the nuances of cultural politics involved in understanding cities;  \n● Discuss the urban studies in this field;and  \n·  Discuss the concept of leisure as a form of Consumption.  \n# 12.1 INTRODUCTION\n\nThis is the last Block of this course,Urban Sociology-In Unit 11,wedescribed the urban neighborhood and Gated Communities and its concerns.  \nIn considering the cultural politics of urban spaces,we must confront what isat the very core of our conception of the urban itself.But in order to make thejourney,we need to arrive at a notion of ‘cultural politics';the reasons forthis will become clearer as we proceed.While traditionally the focus of  \nCultural Politics  \nof Urban Space  \npolitical sociology has always been the relations between state and society.The ‘cultural turn’in sociology has pitted politics as a potential inherentwithin every aspect of social life,as politics becomes the site for thecontention of relations of power.There are two main arguments that thiscultural turn makes:the first is that culture is universally constitutive ofsocial relations,and therefore also of identities;while the second is thatculture plays an undeniable role in shaping social relations and identities incontemporary society today.The nuance between the two positions is slight;and it could be said that while the first is epistemological-drawing as it doesfrom an unequivocal stand on a theoretical assumption,the other is historical,as it concerns the empirical changes in social life drawn out over a period oftime.It should be kept in mind,however,that these two are not strictlydifferentiated positions,and tend often to overlap.In this unit we will explainthese different aspects to you.  \n# 12.2 CULTURAL POLITICS:MAJORDISCOURSES\n\nOne of the first thinkers that we turn to for an understanding of theepistemological position is Anthony Giddens,whose primary concern wasalways the relation between socially operative structures and individualagency.He argued that social structures were reproduced effectively bysocial actors in their everyday practices,and that in this reproduction therewas a sense of knowledge about those practices that they were continuing.Giddens relied on an ethnomethodological approach to arrive at such aconclusion;for him,while social action can be taken only in the backgroundof resources provided by structures,only through the careful interactions ofknowledgable social actors(Giddens 1984).It is when one starts to considerthat knowledge is itself a function of culture that Giddens’theory ofstructuration be considered a theory of social relations and identities throughcultural constitution.His later work dealt explicitly with the idea of radicalsocial change,where he considered that structures too came with an idea of'self-reflexivity',where social actors effect social change not throughworking on others but on themselves,which in turn produces,as well asindicates,changes in the structures that constitute these social actors(forinstance,the family,the state,etc).For Giddens,therefore social life in thecontemporary world became increasingly(self-)reflexive because thedevelopment of modernity brought along with it a de-traditionalisation,and aclash of cultures whose primary cause was globalisation.(Giddens 1990)  \nIt is not","cbCaihd86jamoyDO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihd86jamoyDO","pdf",283561,15,"English","# 12.0 Objectives\n# 12.1 Introduction\n# 12.2 Cultural Politics:Major Discourses\n## 12.3 Urban Studies and the City\n### 12.3.1 Gap between Theoretical and Micro-Empirical Studies\n### 12.3.2 Cities and their Types\n### 12.3.3 Urban Ecological Studies\n### 12.3.4 City and Its Cultural Spaces\n### 12.3.5 Consumption and Cities\n## 12.4 Plurality of Urbanity\n### 12.4.1 Production-Centered Capitalism to Consumer-Centered Capitalism\n# 12.5 Concept of Leisure\n# 12.6 Let Us Sum Up\n# 12.7 References\n# 12.8 Specimen Answers to Check Your Progress","[{\"question\":\"What learning objectives does Unit 12 cover?\",\"answer\":\"The unit explains the nature and scope of urban sociology, describes cultural politics in understanding cities, discusses urban studies in this field, and examines leisure as a form of consumption.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the unit explain cultural politics in relation to urban spaces?\",\"answer\":\"It frames cultural politics as central to how the urban itself is conceived, emphasizing how cultural turn perspectives treat politics as inherent across social life and relations of power.\"},{\"question\":\"What theoretical ideas are used to support the unit’s discussion of cultural politics?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on Giddens’ structuration ideas about structures and agency, and on discourse theory influenced by Foucault, alongside post-Marxist approaches by Laclau and Mouffe that link culture, hegemony, and contingent political identities.\"}]","Unit 12 Consumer Culture Leisure - Cultural Politics and Urban Studies Overview | PDF",38]