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This study is to examine the rational direction for cultural education in social studies education. For this purpose, I viewed the perspective and methodology of cultural study by S. Hall and J. C. Alexander, who are expected to provide significant points to cultural education. Then, I searched for the implication of their study in cultural education. The findings are as follows ; First, they set up 'meaning' problem as an important issue and analyze media text or discourse about citizen society to approach this 'meaning' problem. They adopt semiological methodology to interpret the problem. Its implication to social studies education is that it provides significance in understanding meaning which is shown in discourse about citizen society through classification of system of symbol in achievement, in understanding characteristics of cultural phenomenon in citizen society through analysis of cultural code, and in understanding diversity of cultural phenomenon from the perspective of 다의성 of media decoding.