What is culture and how well does it work in explaining our social phenomena? This paper
is an attempt to answer these two questions. The vagueness or uncertainty around the …

In recent decades, a burgeoning literature finds cultural sociologists incorporating ideas
from the cognitive sciences—cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, linguistics …

Obtaining cultural measurements or analyses tends to be an intense, focused process, often
providing a single cultural snapshot of the relevant population of interest. Population …

The most widely used formal approach to culture, the cultural consensus theory (CCT) of
Romney, Weller, and Batchelder, originally relied on a priori definitions of cultural groups to …

Views of culture in psychology and soci-ology have converged markedly in the past two
decades. Both have rejected what Adams and Markus (2004) refer to as the …

Cultural studies have a particular place in the social science literature. While little consensus
exists on the concept, most social analysts agree on the importance of cultural studies for the …

Cultural studies holds an uncertain status in sociology. While many view it as the one area of
social science based on lived experience, others question the utility of its approach, where …

Covering a wide range of subjects and diversity of approaches, this book presents an in-
depth study of the sociology of culture. In doing so, it demonstrates how far contemporary …

First, methodologically, research in cultural sociology now employs all the major
methodologies in use by sociologists, from field research to historical and comparative …