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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.
For a Sociology of the Cinema
For a Sociology of the Cinema
INTRODUCTION
On December 28th 1895, in the Grand Café in Paris, the Lumière brothers screened the first ten short films that they had made with their recently patented cinématographe machine, an occasion customarily, if debatably, identified as the birth of the cinema. Earlier that year, also in Paris, Émile Durkheim had published his manifesto for the newly legitimate discipline of sociology, Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique, and, in 1896, as the Lumières toured the world with their show, he became the founding director of L'Année Sociologique, a journal which continues publication to this day. In Germany, also in 1896, Max Weber took up a chair in sociology at the University of ...
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