Folklore is a cultural studies discipline that, in close connection with neighboring subjects such as history, linguistics and literary studies, art history, ethnology and religious studies, focuses on people's ways of life, primarily in the area of their own culture. Folklore is an empirical subject with primarily qualitative approaches (soft methods) and hermeneutic-interpretive working methods. The focus of interest is popular and everyday culture in its oral and written traditions, its images, symbols, signs, in particular the categories of society, history and gender.

Folklore is a cultural studies discipline that, in close connection with neighboring subjects such as history, linguistics and literary studies, art history, ethnology and religious studies, focuses on people's ways of life, primarily in the area of their own culture. Folklore is an empirical subject with primarily qualitative approaches (soft methods) and hermeneutic-interpretive working methods. The focus of interest is popular and everyday culture in its oral and written traditions, its images, symbols, signs, in particular the categories of society, history and gender.