ABSTRACT
Political science has been structured by many subfields or subdivisions, wherein students and researchers specialise based on personal preferences. This chapter focuses on the greater political implications of studying culture. Culture and political science intersect in three different ways. In a first intersection, political scientists often approach culture from either aesthetic or anthropological registers. The second understanding of culture in political science has to do with "political culture". Thus far, the authors have insisted on presenting these two notions of culture in an effort to demonstrate the diversity of meanings of culture in political science. More importantly, however, what they have tried to evidence is how the discipline's most important notions of culture are, in fact, unrelated to the definition of culture that has been most salient to the study of cultural policy. This brings them to the third understanding of culture: as both art and heritage.
