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  • Essay / Cultural studies: what is subjectivity? - 1127

    Subjectivity is a major aspect of everyday life. It happens every second of the day, people are subjective and have no idea they are doing this. This comes naturally from people's influences, because this is the world we live in today. Subjectivity is culturally constructed rather than innate and natural, this will be discussed in depth through examples within the framework of performance/performativity and examples used throughout the discussion on the importance of habitus. In the world we live in today, people are influenced by their environment. The media has a major influence on the world. This is why poststructuralist theorists believe that subjectivity is culturally constructed. Although there is no essential connection between questions of subjectivity and questions of subordination and power, and there is certainly much work in anthropology that closely explores subjectivity as an arena of somewhat neutral analysis, we will also explore how and why There is a strong connection between subjectivity and power. Subjectivity has now become an important aspect of life and everyone is expected to be subjective towards others. People have different opinions because not everyone was raised the same way and they were raised in the same environment or influences. Performance and performativity are completely different concepts in terms of cultural studies, they both play a major role in people's lives and how it is constructed. lead them to become subjective throughout their lives. There are four main ways to look at “doing”: being, doing, showing the action, and explaining the demonstration of the action. Being is existence itself, doing is action, we know that it is always moving, always changing, showing middle of paper...... the second important idea introduced by Bourdieu is that of “capital”, which goes beyond the notion of material benefits for capital, which can be social, cultural or symbolic. These forms of capital are equally important and can be built and transferred from one domain to another. Cultural capital and the means when it is created or transferred from other types. Capital plays a major role in societal power relations, as it paves the way for a non-economic form of power and hierarchy, with classes differentiated by their tastes. The concept of habitus gives rise to an additional and living theory of embodiment, essential to a feminist knowledge of gender individuality as a stable but not incontestable norm. The concept of "field" creates a deeper analysis of the social context in which automatic alteration of gender identity develops..