Questions of Method in Cultural Studies

The Question Of Method In Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies: the question of method. Covering such topics as the media, feminism, and politics, these original and lively essays identify what methods have prevailed in the interdisciplinary pursuit of cultural studies, and sketch out a methodological paradigm. They also analyze what kinds of methodological choices are made, privileged, even attacked in the academy and among the disciplines. Examining the relationship between cultural studies and traditional disciplines, the politics of knowledge, and spatial and temporal models, this book probes the possibility of method in explicit terms for scholars and students in media, communications, sociology and allied fields.

Mimi White is Professor of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University. She is author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television (1992) and co-author of Media Knowledge (with James Schwoch and Susan Reilly, 1992).

James Schwoch holds a permanent faculty appointment at Northwestern University, where he conducts research on media history, diplomacy and international relations, science and technology studies, and research methodologies. He is the author of The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900–1939 (1990).