Etudes culturelles, Cultural Studies, Kulturwissenschaften. Eine vergleichende Skizze im Prisma der Norm

This paper aims at bringing out some of the most significant characteristics that unite and differentiate the way culture is dealt with in the Cultural Studies, Kulturwissenschaften and études culturelles and does so in the light of norm. It would be indeed unavailing to be fully exhaustive given the great plurality of all this scientific formations. It is certainly more relevant to point out how these formations respectively navigate in relation to the norm, whether in theory and practice or at the institutional level, and in so doing fulfill a crucial orientation function.