Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

![CDATA[The Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) (1964–2002) was a maverick interdisciplinary research-based unit within the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. It had a profound effect on sociocultural analysis, the spread of interdisciplinarity, and the engaged intellectual practices of academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences that registered well outside the field of Cultural Studies. Founded by Richard Hoggart (renowned author of The Uses of Literacy), the CCCS produced many well-known researchers in its interdisciplinary field, the best known being Stuart Hall, who succeeded Hoggart as Director.The work of the Centre was characterized by a radical, New Left-influenced antielitist approach to culture and ideology, focusing, for example, on subcultures, the media, and the state. Although it closed in 2002, the extraordinary ripple effect of the CCCS on interdisciplinary, reflexive social theory within and beyond Britain and Cultural Studies is undeniable.]]