Introduction
In the contemporary community, culture plays a vital role in developing a connection between people and memories. The norms we have grown to see, experience and practice defines our existence from a given period. This resources of culture are essential in educating and helping the community to express the need and necessity of preservation. There are different ways and means of conservation of a culture that helps in defining, developing and implementing a logical protection about human life. For instance, there is the need of saving and protecting for something that has value and meaning to you. If not only to you but also a community. This fight for culture is a comparative approach to understanding the importance of culture and how its perspective helps in unifying our beliefs. A shared cultural object that many have fought to protect and preserve is the Fenway Park in Boston. Although many do not consider it a favorite aesthetic park with a swimming pool, cozy surroundings, and well-designed stadium seats, many have fought for the 90-year-old stadium. The element of fighting for this Fenway Park enhances the understanding and resolve of using different mechanisms in understanding the value of a cultural object. Through the application and use of Schudson’s 5R model, I will be able to analyze the vital stand and necessity of Fenway Park comprehensively as a place for connecting culture and people through interactive usability (Schudson 160). The model will focus on the cultural object and create a connection between the cultural object (Fenway Park) and the community of Boston. Cultural objects are valuable assets cannot associate with an individual community, buy they are essential aspects relating the memories, perspectives and development of a foundation to those who value and use them.
Schudson’s 5R Model
According to Michael Schudson and how culture works, he explains and offers different insights into the development of cultural objects as symbols. These symbols are essential in providing and promoting the aspect of the community through cognition, love and actualization to their different perspectives. Schudson developed the various stages of cultural potency in explaining the importance and why diverse cultural places have an impact on the foundation of value (Schudson 160). The foundation of value is a critical connection in supporting memories with the allocation and development of important recognition although it may vary among people. Hence, the model comprises of retrievability, rhetorical force, resonance, institutional retention and resolution aspects.
Retrievability
Schudson offered a logic observation on the needs and elements entirely to support the needs of culture and its impact on a community. The impact of stadiums or parked built in the early 1900s offers a critical influence into the importance and necessity of its accessibility. It is a golden age stadium that has a lot to offer to the community and has provided from the past. The park is a common ground with its prolific attraction on professional baseball. This culture of professional baseball offers and helps in recognition, support and development of the community through impacting its social support (Schudson 161). With cultural recognition, retrievability works towards a common reach for the community. Thus, to save and preserve Fenway Park as a cultural object of Boston, there is the need of developing and increasing a common platform for engaging and valuing its worthy. For the preservation of this cultural object, the community who use and presume to fight for the cultural impact the park has, needs to be physically available to appreciate its keep. This physical accessibility is possible through the different lanes constructed to support and offer adequate accessibility to the park either during baseball games or taking strolls and picnics. Therefore, retrievability helps in understanding the sociopolitical changes and worth of a cultural object. If the community could have accessibility to the Fenway Park and appreciate it, it could foster a method for preservation. The cultural impact of Fenway Park is ideally a common platform to engage and educate a general recognition in planning and motivating the value of its cultural impact in Boston City.
Rhetorical force
There are different reasons as to why there is the need of preserving such a cultural element. There are also different methods of preserving cultural elements or objects. Bostonians have created various groups such as Save Fenway Park, and this is essential in establishing a popular revolution towards reaching and surveying various roles in the community. The value of supporting, influencing and educating a community is not to enforce rather than to tell them why. The same applies to the Fenway Park’s culture and its impact it has on the community. The different reasons as to why many fans and Bostonians still believe in this resources is the memories it brings to the community (Schudson 162). The past are some of the memories that help in demonstrating the value of culture and the objects that and should be a resource for future generations. Apart from a resource for memories, it is a connecting element from the rural past to the public present, which helps in inspiring the development and allocation of essential features in the community. The resource for the community is the value and distribution of potential in supporting and promoting the community (Kellner 28). The history and founding of baseball regarded as a ritual and celebration. The belief of using baseball as routine influences the community to thinking about the importance and ability to use baseball as a foundation. This foundation is what keeps the community of Boston together and influencing their development. Through a comparative essence, it is necessary and essential in guiding the community towards a shared and critical feature of the community.
Resonance
Holding esteem or value for the community is what depth of Fenway Park offers to the community. It supports and develops a standard application of value to the community’s needs. For instance, most people value religion as part of their requirements. Without the value of considering religion as a way of life, many people do not foster nor can they develop. The same applies to the value of Fenway Park to the usual way of life in the community (Schudson 163). There is the need for developing and monitoring a typical value to support and increase the domination of activities. The essence, nature and relations of such effects are to promote the needs of the community. The park is a baseball function based field, but many people in the city use it as a getaway place for supporting and developing functional actualization. The necessity of this area is allocating the need, means, and promotion of promoting the value of the community. As a result, there is the need for the park to offer the necessary aspects to meet the needs of the community. The park has essential features to promote, elaborate and advice the society based on its value. Resonance seeks to understand the importance and worth of an object to its community and Fenway Park does.
d. Institutional retention
Institutionalization helps in demonstrating the cultural potency of an object. Fenway Park has become a landmark for the city, and its national recognition is a transition from the golden age to the modern community that associates and offers development. The value of change as seen in the community is the development of Fenway Park as a social interaction site for the community to connect through sporting and cheering of their local baseball team (Borer 217). People in the city value and figure the cost of the park from a personal point of view to a more logical assumption in supporting and helping those who undermine the necessity of the community. The importance and original allocation of support are gaining the means and freedom of promoting its recognition. It is a monument during the offseason period when the Red Sox team are not playing and training. This institutionalization supported the value and appreciation of the community into developing the platform to support and fully implement the value of the community through retention and maintaining its cultural identification (Kellner 23). Therefore, retention of an object helps in preservation through its integration into the community’s needs and measures to promote collective associations.
Resolution aspects
Resolution helps in demonstrating the need to have and keep certain resources in the community. The value of decision supports and increases the recognition, domination and encouraging of personal gratification. The Fenway Park offers not the only resolution for its existence, but also helps in promoting the needs of the community through a common precondition in the community. Baseball is the identity and a cultural event hosted in the park, without a team to play and activity to attend; it will reduce the resolution of the Fenway Park (Borer 219). The element of the park is essential in promoting and supporting the value of the society in developing and creating a joint plan, resources, and actualization plan. Playing and hosting different activities in the field could help in attracting a broad platform of players and increasing the overall recognition. Hence, there is the need of generating value as a possible measure of understanding the community’s resolution. The upkeep is necessary and essential in guiding, mapping and placing the park as a social landmark in the community.
Conclusion
In conclusion, cultural place, and public objects are an essential element that helps in preserving and maintaining a common relation between the communities. Having a community share an origin, a past or an event, could foster the development of a favorite feature based on particular agreement and resolution fitting a given culture. Hence, sharing culture and for instance, the Fenway Park is an element that has what it takes to maintain the community, promote its sharing links and performing the necessary measures to increase and develop different associations such as institutionalization and traditional and modern linkages. Therefore, based on Schudson's 5R model, Fenway Park is a cultural object with the value and recognition from the society.
Works Cited
Borer, Michael Ian. "Important places and their public faces: Understanding Fenway Park as a public symbol." The Journal of Popular Culture 39.2 (2006): 205-224.
Kellner, Douglas. Media culture: Cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the post-modern. Routledge, 2003.
Schudson, Michael. "How culture works." Theory and Society 18.2 (1989): 153-180.
