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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Who wrote The Uses of Literacy?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Richard Hoggart wrote The Uses of Literacy, published in 1957.
• The book examines working-class culture and the effects of commercial mass culture.
• E.P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class.
• Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall were also major figures in the development of British Cultural Studies.
• The book examines working-class culture and the effects of commercial mass culture.
• E.P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class.
• Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall were also major figures in the development of British Cultural Studies.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
The Making of the English Working Class was written by:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• E.P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class, published in 1963.
• The work reconstructs working-class formation through lived experience, struggle and collective agency.
• Hoggart is associated chiefly with The Uses of Literacy.
• The book became a foundational text for history from below.
• The work reconstructs working-class formation through lived experience, struggle and collective agency.
• Hoggart is associated chiefly with The Uses of Literacy.
• The book became a foundational text for history from below.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which year is associated with the first publication of The Uses of Literacy?
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Explanation:
• The Uses of Literacy was first published in 1957.
• Its appearance preceded The Making of the English Working Class, which was published in 1963.
• The book helped shape the intellectual foundations of British Cultural Studies.
• It combined literary analysis, social observation and autobiography.
• Its appearance preceded The Making of the English Working Class, which was published in 1963.
• The book helped shape the intellectual foundations of British Cultural Studies.
• It combined literary analysis, social observation and autobiography.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
The subtitle of The Uses of Literacy emphasizes working-class life with special reference to:
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Explanation:
• The full subtitle refers to aspects of working-class life with special reference to publications and entertainments.
• Hoggart studies magazines, popular fiction, advertising and other forms of commercial culture.
• His concern is not limited to formal politics or industrial institutions.
• The subtitle signals the book's attention to media and everyday cultural consumption.
• Hoggart studies magazines, popular fiction, advertising and other forms of commercial culture.
• His concern is not limited to formal politics or industrial institutions.
• The subtitle signals the book's attention to media and everyday cultural consumption.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Hoggart's account of working-class culture is best described as:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hoggart examines habits, speech, family relations, neighbourhood life and popular reading.
• His method combines cultural criticism with personal knowledge of working-class communities.
• The study is not confined to economic statistics or formal literary analysis.
• He remains critical of many standardized commercial entertainments.
• His method combines cultural criticism with personal knowledge of working-class communities.
• The study is not confined to economic statistics or formal literary analysis.
• He remains critical of many standardized commercial entertainments.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which concept is most closely associated with E.P. Thompson's historical method?
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Explanation:
• Thompson is strongly associated with history from below.
• This approach recovers the experiences and actions of ordinary people rather than concentrating only on rulers and institutions.
• The intentional fallacy belongs to New Criticism.
• Defamiliarization is associated with Russian Formalism.
• This approach recovers the experiences and actions of ordinary people rather than concentrating only on rulers and institutions.
• The intentional fallacy belongs to New Criticism.
• Defamiliarization is associated with Russian Formalism.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
For E.P. Thompson, class is primarily:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Thompson treats class as a historical relationship rather than a static thing.
• Class formation occurs as people recognize shared interests through common experiences and conflicts.
• His approach rejects biological and mechanically fixed definitions.
• This relational view is central to The Making of the English Working Class.
• Class formation occurs as people recognize shared interests through common experiences and conflicts.
• His approach rejects biological and mechanically fixed definitions.
• This relational view is central to The Making of the English Working Class.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which institution did Richard Hoggart help establish at the University of Birmingham in 1964?
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Explanation:
• Richard Hoggart helped establish the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1964.
• The centre became highly influential in the development of Cultural Studies.
• It encouraged interdisciplinary research into media, class, youth and popular culture.
• The Frankfurt Institute belongs to a different intellectual tradition and location.
• The centre became highly influential in the development of Cultural Studies.
• It encouraged interdisciplinary research into media, class, youth and popular culture.
• The Frankfurt Institute belongs to a different intellectual tradition and location.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
In The Uses of Literacy, mass culture is often criticized for:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hoggart worries that commercial mass culture may standardize tastes and erode older communal practices.
• His argument contrasts local working-class traditions with newer forms of commercial entertainment.
• He does not claim that literacy disappears entirely.
• His critique concerns cultural transformation rather than a simple return to the past.
• His argument contrasts local working-class traditions with newer forms of commercial entertainment.
• He does not claim that literacy disappears entirely.
• His critique concerns cultural transformation rather than a simple return to the past.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which phrase best captures Thompson's treatment of working people in history?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Thompson presents working people as historical agents who organize, interpret and resist.
• They are not merely passive effects of economic structures.
• His narrative emphasizes political movements, customs, beliefs and collective action.
• This focus on agency is a defining feature of history from below.
• They are not merely passive effects of economic structures.
• His narrative emphasizes political movements, customs, beliefs and collective action.
• This focus on agency is a defining feature of history from below.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Statement I: Hoggart's work gives serious attention to popular publications and entertainment.
Statement II: Hoggart treats all commercial culture as socially beneficial.
Statement II: Hoggart treats all commercial culture as socially beneficial.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Hoggart analyses magazines, popular fiction, advertising and entertainment.
• Statement II is incorrect because he is often critical of commercial standardization and cultural manipulation.
• His study takes popular culture seriously without endorsing every cultural product.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because he is often critical of commercial standardization and cultural manipulation.
• His study takes popular culture seriously without endorsing every cultural product.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Statement I: Thompson defines class as a thing that exists independently of historical relationships.
Statement II: Thompson emphasizes the role of shared experience in class formation.
Statement II: Thompson emphasizes the role of shared experience in class formation.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because Thompson rejects the idea of class as a fixed thing.
• Statement II is correct because shared experiences help people identify common interests and antagonisms.
• Class is therefore understood as an active historical formation.
• Option D correctly represents the two statements.
• Statement II is correct because shared experiences help people identify common interests and antagonisms.
• Class is therefore understood as an active historical formation.
• Option D correctly represents the two statements.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: The Uses of Literacy is important to Cultural Studies.
Reason: It connects the analysis of texts and media with the lived experience of working-class communities.
Reason: It connects the analysis of texts and media with the lived experience of working-class communities.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Hoggart's book helped establish key methods and concerns of Cultural Studies.
• The Reason is also correct because the book connects cultural texts with everyday social experience.
• This interdisciplinary connection directly explains the book's importance.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• The Reason is also correct because the book connects cultural texts with everyday social experience.
• This interdisciplinary connection directly explains the book's importance.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: Thompson's history from below gives central importance to cultural agency.
Reason: He represents ordinary people as capable of interpreting conditions and acting collectively.
Reason: He represents ordinary people as capable of interpreting conditions and acting collectively.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Thompson foregrounds the agency of working people.
• The Reason is correct because his historical subjects understand, negotiate and challenge their circumstances.
• Their collective action demonstrates cultural and political agency.
• The Reason correctly explains the Assertion, making option A correct.
• The Reason is correct because his historical subjects understand, negotiate and challenge their circumstances.
• Their collective action demonstrates cultural and political agency.
• The Reason correctly explains the Assertion, making option A correct.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Consider the following statements about The Uses of Literacy:
1. It studies working-class cultural life.
2. It examines commercial publications and entertainment.
3. It relies exclusively on quantitative economic data.
4. It helped shape British Cultural Studies.
Which statements are correct?
1. It studies working-class cultural life.
2. It examines commercial publications and entertainment.
3. It relies exclusively on quantitative economic data.
4. It helped shape British Cultural Studies.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because the book examines working-class life and values.
• Statement 2 is correct because Hoggart studies mass publications and entertainment.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because his method is qualitative, interpretive and partly autobiographical rather than exclusively quantitative.
• Statement 4 is correct because the book influenced the formation of British Cultural Studies.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because Hoggart studies mass publications and entertainment.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because his method is qualitative, interpretive and partly autobiographical rather than exclusively quantitative.
• Statement 4 is correct because the book influenced the formation of British Cultural Studies.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements about E.P. Thompson:
1. He emphasizes historical process.
2. He treats class as relational.
3. He rejects the significance of human experience.
4. He writes history from below.
Which statements are correct?
1. He emphasizes historical process.
2. He treats class as relational.
3. He rejects the significance of human experience.
4. He writes history from below.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Thompson understands class formation as a historical process.
• Statement 2 is correct because class emerges through relationships and conflicts.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because experience is central to his historical explanation.
• Statement 4 is correct because he reconstructs history through ordinary people's lives and struggles.
• Thus, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because class emerges through relationships and conflicts.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because experience is central to his historical explanation.
• Statement 4 is correct because he reconstructs history through ordinary people's lives and struggles.
• Thus, option B is correct.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Richard Hoggart
2. E.P. Thompson
3. The Uses of Literacy
4. The Making of the English Working Class
List II
I. History from below
II. Working-class publications and entertainments
III. Cultural critic associated with Birmingham
IV. Historian of class formation
List I
1. Richard Hoggart
2. E.P. Thompson
3. The Uses of Literacy
4. The Making of the English Working Class
List II
I. History from below
II. Working-class publications and entertainments
III. Cultural critic associated with Birmingham
IV. Historian of class formation
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Richard Hoggart matches the cultural critic associated with Birmingham.
• E.P. Thompson matches the historian of class formation.
• The Uses of Literacy matches the study of working-class publications and entertainments.
• The Making of the English Working Class matches history from below.
• Therefore, option A gives the correct complete matching.
• E.P. Thompson matches the historian of class formation.
• The Uses of Literacy matches the study of working-class publications and entertainments.
• The Making of the English Working Class matches history from below.
• Therefore, option A gives the correct complete matching.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Working-class culture
2. Mass culture
3. Experience
4. Class formation
List II
I. Shared historical process of developing collective identity
II. Lived social knowledge shaped by material conditions
III. Communal habits, values and everyday practices
IV. Standardized commercial cultural production
List I
1. Working-class culture
2. Mass culture
3. Experience
4. Class formation
List II
I. Shared historical process of developing collective identity
II. Lived social knowledge shaped by material conditions
III. Communal habits, values and everyday practices
IV. Standardized commercial cultural production
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Working-class culture matches communal habits, values and everyday practices.
• Mass culture matches standardized commercial cultural production.
• Experience matches lived social knowledge shaped by material conditions.
• Class formation matches the historical development of collective identity.
• Hence, option C is the correct matching code.
• Mass culture matches standardized commercial cultural production.
• Experience matches lived social knowledge shaped by material conditions.
• Class formation matches the historical development of collective identity.
• Hence, option C is the correct matching code.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which is the correct chronological order?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Uses of Literacy was published in 1957.
• The Making of the English Working Class was published in 1963.
• The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was established at Birmingham in 1964.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1957 → 1963 → 1964, represented by option B.
• The Making of the English Working Class was published in 1963.
• The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was established at Birmingham in 1964.
• Therefore, the correct sequence is 1957 → 1963 → 1964, represented by option B.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Thompson's concept of class?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Thompson understands class as historically formed through relationships, experience and conflict.
• Collective consciousness emerges through social and political processes.
• Option C is incorrect because class is not permanently fixed before interaction.
• His relational model opposes static and mechanically predetermined definitions.
• Collective consciousness emerges through social and political processes.
• Option C is incorrect because class is not permanently fixed before interaction.
• His relational model opposes static and mechanically predetermined definitions.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which comparison between Hoggart and Thompson is most accurate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hoggart focuses on working-class cultural habits, literacy, publications and entertainment.
• Thompson reconstructs the historical making of class through experience and collective struggle.
• Both take everyday life seriously, but their primary emphases differ.
• Option A accurately captures this distinction.
• Thompson reconstructs the historical making of class through experience and collective struggle.
• Both take everyday life seriously, but their primary emphases differ.
• Option A accurately captures this distinction.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A historian studies food riots, local customs, radical associations and artisan testimony to reconstruct working-class politics. This method most clearly reflects:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The method begins with ordinary people's customs, records and collective actions.
• This is characteristic of history from below, closely associated with Thompson.
• It challenges elite-centred political history by recovering popular agency.
• The other options do not primarily reconstruct social history through ordinary people's experience.
• This is characteristic of history from below, closely associated with Thompson.
• It challenges elite-centred political history by recovering popular agency.
• The other options do not primarily reconstruct social history through ordinary people's experience.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A researcher examines how older neighbourhood values are altered by glossy magazines, advertising and commercial entertainment. Which work provides the most relevant model?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Uses of Literacy examines the encounter between working-class traditions and commercial mass culture.
• Hoggart analyses magazines, advertising and entertainment as forces shaping everyday values.
• The Making of the English Working Class is historical rather than primarily a study of contemporary media consumption.
• Culture and Anarchy and Practical Criticism belong to different critical projects.
• Hoggart analyses magazines, advertising and entertainment as forces shaping everyday values.
• The Making of the English Working Class is historical rather than primarily a study of contemporary media consumption.
• Culture and Anarchy and Practical Criticism belong to different critical projects.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which statement best explains cultural agency in the work of Hoggart and Thompson?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cultural agency refers to people's capacity to act within and upon cultural conditions.
• Hoggart recognizes working-class habits and forms of cultural discrimination.
• Thompson emphasizes collective action and the historical making of class.
• Option D best captures the active role assigned to ordinary people by both thinkers.
• Hoggart recognizes working-class habits and forms of cultural discrimination.
• Thompson emphasizes collective action and the historical making of class.
• Option D best captures the active role assigned to ordinary people by both thinkers.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which integrated conclusion best represents the contribution of Hoggart and Thompson to Cultural Studies?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Hoggart demonstrates how publications, entertainment and everyday habits illuminate working-class culture.
• Thompson shows how historical experience and collective action produce class formation.
• Together, their work links culture, history, class and agency.
• Option B provides the most accurate integrated conclusion.
• Thompson shows how historical experience and collective action produce class formation.
• Together, their work links culture, history, class and agency.
• Option B provides the most accurate integrated conclusion.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Richard Hoggart సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. E.P. Thompson సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. 1957 సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Publications and entertainments సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. An analysis of lived communal values and changing cultural habits సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. History from below సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. A historical relationship formed through experience and struggle సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Standardizing taste and weakening local cultural forms సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Active makers of their own collective history సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: D. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: D.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-II, 4-I సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-II, 4-I సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: B. The Uses of Literacy → The Making of the English Working Class → establishment of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies సమాధానం: B.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: C. It is permanently fixed before social interaction సమాధానం: C.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Hoggart studies cultural practices and media, while Thompson reconstructs class formation historically సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. History from below సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. The Uses of Literacy సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Ordinary people interpret, preserve, negotiate and transform cultural meanings సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: B. Working-class life can be analysed through both cultural forms and historical experience సమాధానం: B.