Cultural Studies is and is not a discipline

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2. what are the characteristics of an academic discipline? The list of criteria and characteristics, which indicate whether a subject is indeed a distinct discipline generally would include: 1) Experts 2) Theories and terminologies 3) Research goals 4) Methodology 5) University construct
3. Definition of cultural studies? cultural studies according to During (1999) is the study of culture more particularly contemporary culture or as described by Barker (2004) in his Sage Dictionary of Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary or post disciplinary field.He points to the fact that cultural studies is a 'language-game'. By this he meant talking in various ways, re-describing cultural practices, institutions and established ways and patterns of thinking that we may have collected over so many years

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