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About the section.
Section bylaws

Past Officers  

Awards

 

Chair:Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University  

Past chair:Barry Glassner, University of Southern California  

Chair-Elect: Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego  

Secretary-Treasurer: Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Indiana University  

Council: 

  • Denise D. Bielby, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Amy J. Binder, University of California, San Diego
  • Tia DeNora, University of Exeter
  • Ann Mische, Rutgers University
  • Penny Edgell, University of Minnesota
  • Francesca Polletta, University of California, Irvine
  • Lyn C. MacGregor (student member)
  • Isaac A. Reed (student member)

 

Nominations Committee Chair: Andrew J. Perrin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 

Newsletter and Web Editor:Andrew J. Perrin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 

The purpose of the Section on Sociology of Culture is to encourage development of this perspective through the organized interchange of ideas and research. The Section on Culture considers material products, ideas, and symbolic means and their relation to social behavior.

The Culture Section generates lively intellectual exchange about a range of issues, from the sociology of the arts, to political culture, to identity construction, to studies of religion and science. Members have access to the excellent section-sponsored sessions and roundtables at the annual meetings. The section also has a number of research networks, including those on the relations of culture to gender, ethnicity, theory, history, religion, identities and on meaning and measurement and symbolic boundaries. The networks gather at the annual meetings, occasionally hold mini-conferences, and conduct e-mail conferences between meetings.



Message from the Newsletter Editor:

A key benefit of membership in the Culture Section is our newsletter. This publication, consisting of three 12-16 page issues a year, contains not only information about section activities but also substantive article. Often these are first statements about new research and theory-building in cultural sociology. In addition, each issue features Richard Peterson's "Books of Note," providing short reviews of hundreds of new books in the field each year. Unsolicited contributions are welcome; further information on contributing is found in each issue. We also provide information through "Culture Online," which includes a WWW site and electronic mailings to provide information not yet available in the newsletter itself.



 

   

 

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