According to Chris Barker, as a domain Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary or even post -disciplinary field of inquiry that explores the production and inculcation of culture or maps of meaning. But we do not ask what Cultural Studies refers to for it “ has no referent to which we can point.” As a subject, it is constituted by certain key terms and ways of speaking called ‘discourses'. ( Sage Dictionary )

Some of these key terms are:

“Cultural studies can be also be grasped as a discursive formation ; that is, a group of ideas, images and practices, that provide ways of talking about, and conduct associated with, a particular topic, social activity or institutional site.” (Barker, Cultural Studies )