Social, historical, institutional, cultural, economic and political contexts

What this note covers

1. What 'context' means in this study, and the two contexts you must separate
2. Social context: values, norms and what a society is talking about
3. Historical context: the moment of making and the moment depicted
4. Institutional context: who made it, who paid, who decides
5. Cultural context: shared meaning, tradition and whose story is told
6. Economic and political contexts
7. Building a context argument: method and evidence
8. How context is examined and what separates a top-band answer

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