In how many different ways can you study yourself as a cultural being? That Cultural Studies is resolutely interdisciplinary may be evident when we pose the following questions to do with our lives and living:

 

1. Sociology: Why do we have the social systems and arrangements that we do? (Casteism, class-bias, racism, marriage)

2. Psychology: Why do we think in certain ways? What does it mean to be a cognitive agent? (Evolution, brain systems, cognition, self/other, self-esteem.)

3. Science and Technology: How does technology affect our way of life? (Churchill: We design our buildings and then our buildings design us.)

4. Literature, Media: Why are the media and literature so powerful as cultural products? How are we ‘constructed' by the media?

5. History: How has culture evolved and changed through different times? How should we study history?