Does cultural studies have a fixed methodology?
There is no such thing as “the cultural studies method,” and there is no single or simple answer to the question of how to do cultural studies. As Larry Grossberg puts it, “cultural studies is radically contextual,” which means (in part) that whatever questions it is trying to answer at a given point in time need to be approached using whatever method(s) are most appropriate to the specific project at hand. In one study, close readings of contemporary media texts might be the method of choice; in another, nothing less than a full-scale ethnographic project will do; in yet a third case, the most fruitful approach might entail digging through historical archives and institutional records, and so on.
