Today, however, the subject matter and the methodology of Cultural Studies are not without its definitional problems. Barker remarks:

“I would suggest that when we ask about what cultural studies ‘is' we are being tricked by the grammar of everyday English language into taking a mistaken pathway. Rather, the topic is more auspiciously pursued with the query ‘how do we talk about cultural studies and for what purposes?' than by asking the question ‘what is cultural studies?'” ( Cultural Studies )

Therefore we may conclude that Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary – some would even claim, postdisciplinary – domain in the Humanities and Social Sciences. As a ‘discipline' it is perhaps one of the most debated upon subjects in the history of the liberal arts.

It is also important to note at the beginning that Cultural Studies proper is not the same as the study of culture . The latter is what is developed in areas like anthropology and sociology and whose chief methodological sites and tools are developed from the view of ethnography. However, Cultural Studies on the other hand is largely anti-positivistic, an orientation that is characterized by the following: