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Biographical note: Stephan Moebius ist Professor für Soziologische Theorie und Ideengeschichte an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz und Vorsitzender der Sektion Kultursoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Bei transcript erschien bisher u.a. »Kultur« (Einsichten. Themen der Soziologie, 2. überarb. Aufl. 2008) und »Das Design der Gesellschaft. Zur Kultursoziologie des Designs« (2012, hg. zus. m. Sophia Prinz).

Since its infancy, the pluralistic tendencies of the cultural studies project denied methodological and procedural consistency and resisted any disciplining of cultural studies as an attempt at authoritarian policing. Over the course of the 1980s, cultural studies continued to spread beyond the United Kingdom to Australia and the United States, initially, and the rest of the world soon thereafter. Movements towards the bridging of the longstanding divisions between fact and interpretation—between the social sciences and the humanities—under the sign of a principled approach to cultural democracy saw the Althusserian Marxism characteristic of earlier cultural studies scholarship expanded by way of a critical re/engagement of the works of Gramsci. This period of ideological critique allowed for a bold intellectual, political commitment to the re/conceptualization of culture as a site of class struggle, hegemonic formation, and structural signification. Particularly, the year 1986 saw major strides in this direction with the publication of monumental manuscripts by Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau, and Chantal Mouffe.

This article reviews the contribution of the discipline of Cultural Studies to that of Politics. It suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. By treating culture as 'ideology', Cultural Studies directs attention to the sites in which meaning is produced and contested. This in turn undermines any clear distinction between politics and culture and consequently demands a broader approach to 'the political' than has traditionally been taken by political science.

Suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. Cultural studies, by treating culture as "ideology," focuses on sites in which meaning is produced & contested, in turn, undermining any clear distinction between politics & culture. Consequently a broader approach to the political is demanded than has traditionally been taken by political science. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.