The Birmingham School

The Birmingham School, also known as the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, is a group of scholars founded in the late 1960s that studied how culture and media reflect and influence society. They focused on understanding how social background, race, class, and gender shape people's experiences and identities. Their work emphasized that culture is a tool for social power and resistance, challenging traditional ideas of high and low culture. Overall, they contributed to critical insights about media, popular culture, and social inequality, shaping how we analyze culture's role in society today.