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So when it came to defining the posture of cultural studies in general (Hall 1980: 20–5), it was envisaged as ‘posing sociological questions against sociology itself’. Birmingham cultural studies did not seek to emulate sociology, yet it was undoubtedly sociological ‘in a loose sense’. Homing in on ‘lived practices, belief systems and institutions, some part of the subject matter of sociology fell within our scope’, Hall observed. Significant aspects of conventional sociology were undoubtedly to be opposed, notably complacent models of the pluralist society and the lifeless ‘mass society’ model of culture, a bogey figure that motivated a wide range of Centre work on the press and television.
In Whiggish fashion, I take this latest scenario to represent definite progress, but it is still not the best of all possible worlds because obvious difficulties remain. One is that intense conflict between defenders of cultural studies and sociology can readily re-surface, just like before. Another problem is that reflexivity and pragmatism, in spite of their intermediate virtues, do not offer fully productive resolutions. ‘Birmingham’ In a series of statements that set the parameters for the 1970s Birmingham mode, Stuart Hall affirmed the need for sociology to break with orthodox sociology.
In a more general critique, David Harris had little difficulty accepting the value of Birmingham/Gramscian cultural studies – as long as it was regarded as ‘one option rather than the only option’ (Harris 1992: 165). 34 Sociological Cultural Studies In relation to empirical exploration, ‘sociology and other bourgeois disciplines could claim to have had a more open relation to empirical evidence’, and meanwhile, there were more substantial theoretical overlaps between cultural studies positions and the likes of Giddens, Weberian sociologists of culture, and sociologically committed feminists than cultural studies researchers were ever willing to admit.