Who held that 'significant breaks', where old lines of thought are disrupted and elements regrouped around new premises, matter most in cultural studies?
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Correct answer: B. Stuart Hall
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Stuart Hall opens 'Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms' (1980) with this claim, then charts the break between culturalism and structuralism.
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