Cultural sociology is a methodology that incorporates cultural analysis into interpretations of social life. Cultural sociologists are influenced by many social and cultural theories. More than other fields of sociology, cultural sociologists tend to explore interdisciplinary social and cultural theories including, but not limited to, postmodern and poststructural theory. Scientific investigation and the production of empirically verifiable analysis (especially in terms of testable theories) is considered taboo among many, but not all self proclaimed cultural sociologists.
More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Fabien Accominotti studies how status hierarchies are made and how they sustain inequality in society. His work asks how we come to view different people as unequally valuable, and how this affects their outcomes. He has written on the emergence of cultural hierarchy as a dimension of social …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Website Biography Education: Ph.D., Sociology, New School for Social Research, 2002 Departmental Areas of Interest: Comparative-Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Culture, General Social Theory, History of Sociology Classes: Soc 259 Forward? The Wisconsin Idea, Past & Present Soc 475 Classical Sociological Theory Soc/Jewish Studies 423 Modern Jewish Thought History …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: My research examines cultural beliefs about gender, romance, sexuality, and sexual violence in the United States. In one major stream of research, I consider how cultural beliefs about sexual harassment create challenges for people who have experienced it. A second, emerging line of research examines how people …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an ethnographer and qualitative sociologist, I research how race/ethnicity and immigration dynamics intertwine in Latin America, with a focus on Brazil and the Southern Cone. My work engages areas …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am a sociologist of gender, work, and family interested in inequality, culture, and demographic change. My research asks how gender inequality persists and changes form as women’s lives transform, and I pursue that question through contemporary South Korea and East Asia. Empirically, I study maternal employment …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Broadly, I am interested in different dimensions of legal and penal state power–their relationship to how societies are organized, the forms of social exclusion that compose them, and the people and mechanisms that influence their transformations. My current research examines public defenders who counsel poor people in Brazil’s …