Saukko, Paula
2005
Methodologies for Cultural Studies: An Integrative Approach in Denzin, NK et al ~ The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research

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“The distinctive feature of cultural studies is the way in which it combines a hermeneutic focus on lived realities, a (post)structuralist critical analysis of discourses that mediate our experiences and realities, and a contextualist/realist investigation of historical, social, and political structures of power.”

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“As Stuart Hall (1982 [The rediscovery of ideology: Return of the repressed in media studies; in Gurevitch, M. et al: Culture, society and the media (pp. 56-90); London: Methuen]) analyzed in a classic article, cultural studies as a paradigm carved itself a space in the early 1970s, between and beyond right-wing positivist functionalism and left-wing Marxist political economy.”