Cultural Sociology
Cultural Sociology is an official journal of the British Sociological Association. It is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles concerning the sociological analysis of culture.
"With the launch of Cultural Sociology, the renewal of sociological interest in culture will finally find a central and global forum. I am convinced that Cultural Sociology will rapidly attract the best work within cultural sociology/sociology of culture, and establish itself quickly as the leading journal within the field" Prof. Rudi Laermans, Centre for Sociology of Culture, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Cultural Sociology is the first journal explicitly to be dedicated to the sociological comprehension of cultural matters. Now firmly established, it acts as a key meeting point for sociological analysts of culture coming from a wide range of theoretical and methodological positions, and from a great variety of national contexts. It is a locale where different analytical traditions in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture can engage with and learn from each other.
Topic coverage includes:
- Cultural sociology and sociology of culture
- Paradigms of sociological analysis of culture
- Relations between cultural sociology, cultural studies and other disciplines
- Methodologies of cultural analysis
- Sociology of cultural production, distribution and consumption
- Contemporary cultural forces and trends
- Cultural creativity and innovation
- Cultural reproduction
- Sociology of historical cultures
- Sociology of art and aesthetics
- Visual, oral and aural cultures
- Sociology of cultural forms and cultural media
- Sociology of performance
- 'Race', ethnicity and culture
- Class and culture
- Gendered cultures
- 'High cultures' and 'low cultures'
- Everyday cultures
- Culture, globalization and globality
- Local, regional, national, international and transnational cultures
- Culture and the life-course
- Tastes and lifestyles
- Cultural power and resistance
- Teaching cultural sociology
- Cultural sociology of 'nature' and the 'environment'
- Cultural sociology of sustainability
- Cultural sociology of health and medicine
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Cultural Sociology publishes empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts.
The objective of Cultural Sociology is to publish original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture. The journal seeks to consolidate, develop and promote the arena of sociological understandings of culture, and is intended to be pivotal in defining both what this arena is like currently and what it could become in the future.
Cultural Sociology will publish innovative, sociologically-informed work concerned with cultural processes and artefacts, broadly defined. Papers dealing with empirically-existing cultural phenomena, analysed and researched in theoretically and methodologically sophisticated ways, are particularly encouraged. Papers that concentrate on more 'empirical', or more 'methodological', or more 'theoretical' issues in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture, are also welcomed.
The journal aims to facilitate fruitful dialogue and cooperation between scholars from different national contexts and between those working within different analytic and methodological paradigms. Although focussed on sociological contributions to cultural analysis, the journal will also encourage discussions between sociologists and others working in cognate fields such as cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, art history, history, literary and film studies, human geography and so on.
The journal is keen to encourage submissions from both established and emerging scholars. Book reviews will allow readers of the journal to keep abreast of important new contributions to the area.
| Nadya Jaworsky | Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
| Ming-Cheng Lo | University of California, Davis, USA |
| Marcus Morgan | University of Bristol, UK |
| Christopher M. Thorpe | University of Exeter, UK |
| Rin Ushiyama | Queen's University Belfast, UK |
| Lyn Spillman | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Laura Harris | University of Southampton, UK |
| David Inglis | Helsinki University, Finland |
| Selina Hisir | British Sociological Association, UK |
| Zeina Al Azmeh | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Vibha Arora | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India |
| Anson Au | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Patricia A. Banks | Mount Holyoke College, USA |
| Elisabeth Becker Topkara | Heidelberg University, Germany |
| David Beer | University of York, UK |
| Emma Casey | University of York, UK |
| Laura Clancy | Lancaster University, UK |
| Isabelle Darmon | The University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Henrik Fürst | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Alessandro Gandini | University of Milan, Italy |
| Luisa Gandolfo | University of Aberdeen, UK |
| Alessandro Gerosa | University of Milan, Italy |
| Sadia Habib | University of Manchester, UK |
| Morteza Hashemi | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Riie Heikkila | Tampere University, Finland |
| Marcos Gonzalez Hernando | Universidad Diego Potales, Chile |
| Mervyn Horgan | University of Guelph, Canada |
| Benjamin Jacobsen | University of York, UK |
| Emmaleena Käkelä | University of Strathclyde, UK |
| Ali Kassem | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Kobe De Keere | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Svetlana Kharchenkova | Leiden University, Netherlands |
| Kristina Kolbe | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Kelvin E. Y. Low | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Siobhan McAndrew | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Terence McDonnell | University of Notre Dame, USA |
| Christian Morgner | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Kate Nash | London School of Economics, UK |
| Stephen Ostertag | Tulane University, USA |
| Semi Purhonen | Tampere University, Finland |
| Matthias Revers | University of Leeds, UK |
| Kusha Sefat | University of Tehran, Iran |
| Tomás Undurraga | Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile |
| Jan Vana | Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic |
| Simone Varriale | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Dirk vom Lehn | King’s College London, UK |
| Galen Watts | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Jeffrey C. Alexander | Yale University, USA |
| Ates Altinordu | Sabanci University, Turkey |
| Guy Bellavance | Université du Québec, Canada |
| Andy Bennett | Griffith University, Australia |
| Tony Bennett | Western Sydney University, Australia |
| Michael Billig | Loughborough University, UK |
| Bethany Bryson | James Madison University, USA |
| Karen Cerulo | Rutgers University |
| Daniel Dayan | Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France |
| Tia DeNora | Exeter University, UK |
| Ron Eyerman | University of Lund, Sweden |
| Gary Alan Fine | Northwestern University |
| Roger Friedland | University of California, USA |
| Josh Gamson | Unviersity of San Fransisco, USA |
| Wendy Griswold | Northwestern University, USA |
| Alois Hahn | University of Trier, Germany |
| Antoine Hennion | Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris, France |
| John Ewing Hughson | University of Central Lancashire, UK |
| Paul K. Jones | The Australian National University, Australia |
| Michèle Lamont | Harvard University, USA |
| Jan Marontate | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Graziella Moraes Silva | Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland |
| Chandra Mukerji | University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Diane Reay | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Mimi Sheller | Drexel University, USA |
| Nick Stevenson | University of Nottingham, UK |
| Helen Thomas | University of the Arts, London, UK |
| Anna Lisa Tota | University of Rome III, Italy |
| Matthias Varul | Independent Scholar, UK |
| Alan Warde | Manchester University, UK |
| Nancy Weiss Hanrahan | George Mason University, USA |
| Helena Wulff | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Shunya Yoshimi | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Barbie Zelizer | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Viviana Zelizer | Princeton University, USA |
| Eviatar Zerubavel | Rutgers University, USA |
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