The article is aimed to investigate the theoretical developments of Ukrainian cultural studies over the last decade. The intensive development of the methodological foundations of cultural knowledge requires the analysis of the currently investigated issues as well as both the fixation of already examined questions and the circumscription of new issues of the cultural studies forming in the further research process. During 2010-2020 the scientists investigated principles of cultural analysis to distinguish "cultural studies" from other "structural elements" of the humanities such as socio-political knowledge, philosophy, aesthetics, history and theory of religion, art history. In particular, the specific areas in which cultural studies intercross with other humanities are under consideration. The research hypothesis that the foundations of cultural analysis are the methodological basis for distinguishing cultural studies among other structural elements of humanities is proofed based on the researches of the Ukrainian scholars in cultural studies

The article is aimed to investigate the theoretical developments of Ukrainian cultural studies over the last decade. The intensive development of the methodological foundations of cultural knowledge requires the analysis of the currently investigated issues as well as both the fixation of already examined questions and the circumscription of new issues of the cultural studies forming in the further research process. During 2010-2020 the scientists investigated principles of cultural analysis to distinguish "cultural studies" from other "structural elements" of the humanities such as socio-political knowledge, philosophy, aesthetics, history and theory of religion, art history. In particular, the specific areas in which cultural studies intercross with other humanities are under consideration. The research hypothesis that the foundations of cultural analysis are the methodological basis for distinguishing cultural studies among other structural elements of humanities is proofed based on the researches of the Ukrainian scholars in cultural studies.