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Categories: Cultural studies, Social sciences

cultural studies British Cultural Studies critical studies Cultural-studies cultural theory

A field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that was initially developed by British academics in the late 1950s, '60s and '70s, and has been subsequently taken up and transformed by scholars from many different disciplines around the world. Open English WordNet

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Cultural studies, also called the cultural sciences, is an interdisciplinary field or scientific branch that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture and its historical foundations. Wikipedia

A diverse field of study which examines representations of culture through a variety of academic theories. Wiktionary

Diverse field of study. Wiktionary (translation)

In fact, in England as well as elsewhere, cultural studies has drawn upon, and embodied, an enormously wide range of theoretical positions, from humanism to poststructuralism, from Marx to Foucault, from pragmatism to psychoanalysis. Open English WordNet

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humanistic discipline

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interdisciplinary science

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