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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations that make up this ever-expanding field. The Handbook's 40 original chapters have been organised into five thematic sections: Theoretical Paradigms Major Methodological Perspectives Domains of Inquiry Cultural Sociology in Contexts Cultural Sociology and Other Analytical Approaches Both comprehensive and current, The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology will be an essential reference tool for both advanced students and scholars across sociology, cultural studies and media studies.
Hermeneutics and Cultural Sociology
Hermeneutics and Cultural Sociology
INTRODUCTION
The questions of what constitutes culture, how to make sense of and interpret it, are anything but new. A long hermeneutic tradition exists, to be sure, which can be traced back to religious readings of sacred texts, early experimentations in the arts, all the way to the emergence of modern philosophy and the very foundations of the humanities and social sciences. Sociology, especially, has never ceased to be deeply challenged by these questions. Of late, ‘to take meaning seriously’ has in particular become the task of cultural sociology, which may explain at least in part why it has been so successful in North America and beyond. By virtue of its theoretical orientations, cultural sociology deals with old ...
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