Cultural Studies : Illusion or Reality ?

When I was going through numerous complicated good for nothing (nothing that matters) subjects, I came across social sciences and cultural studies.

It was a relief to study a subject that has direct relevance to life. It was talking about things which matter to us not talking about models and methods and procedures that make no sense.

However as I began exploring more, I realized a strange thing. I got disillusioned. I expected cultural studies to be the most sacred study in professional and academic world while it turned out to be quite similar to other subjects.

I'd agree for sure that it has lot of significance in life and cultural studies is quite interesting but it is not a life subject. For me, a subject worth reading is something that allows me to live my life better.

It could be time managements, yoga, methods of relaxation, love relationships etc... but it has to add value to my life.

Cultural studies as per my very limited knowledge ( so limited that my comments can be well taken as offensive and ill-equipped.) is complicating life. Cultural theorists have come up with concepts and terms that have little relevance in life.

For instance, the whole study of subcultures seems flawed. In real life, the distinction is quite redundant between parent culture and subculture. It has to be studied in totality, not in isolation.

Similarly, the over emphasis on terms like modernity, post modernity, structuralism and zillion other complicated terms just leaves reader confused.
In fact there exists no consesus on the definition of word "Culture" itself. All that exists is one side and the opposition to it. One authors defines, others refute, modify or support.

I think cultural studies need to be done very closely to life itself than to books. Let go of what has been done and said, one should focus on more first hand life experience - something like ethnography.

At this point, I must apologize for being over critical without being an subject expert but I think we need to keep cultural studies closer to culture and life itself than letting it being lost in the dense forest of terms and theories. (which is quite the case today.)