Roots and perspectives of cultural studies

It is not easy to answer the question " What is cultural studies ?". Because "cultural studies does not speak with one voice, it cannot be spoken with one voice, I do not have one voice with which to represent it". (Barker,2000:4). In this paper I try to go back to the historical "roots" (new left movement and thought, British culturalism, French structurism and post-structurism and so on) and draw the "outline" of this "multi- or postdisciplinary" (Barker, op. cit.). Through this research I'll try to make my position clear on the theories and practices of cultural studies "movement"and want to point out what it means to Japanese sociology.