Comparative cultural studies

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Comparative Cultural Studies is the study of a culture and all of its products and processes with the focus being on the theory, method, and application of the study process(es) rather than on the "what" of the object(s) of study.^[1]

The framework of Comparative cultural studies is built on the tenets of comparative literature and cultural studies as well as notions borrowed from a range of thought. This includes literary and culture theories, (radical) constructivism, communication theories, and systems theories.^[2] These are merged with selected tenets of cultural studies and performed in a contextual and relational construction, with a plurality of methods and approaches.

Comparative cultural studies does not exclude analysis or other established fields of study. In comparative cultural studies, ideally, the framework of methodologies available in the contextual (e.g., systemic and empirical study of culture) are favored. Comparative cultural studies includes the theoretical as well as methodological postulate to move and to dialogue between cultures, languages, literatures, and disciplines. In other words, attention to other cultures -- that is, the comparative perspective -- is a basic and founding element and factor of the framework.^[3]

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1. ^ Purdue University Press Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
2. ^ About comparativeculturalstudies.org (May 6, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-14.
3. ^ Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, ed. (2003), Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, West Lafayette: Purdue UP