| Sociology
of Culture
The University of Pennsylvania offers rich and diverse resources
for the study of the sociology of culture. The large number of faculty
in the Department of Sociology specializing in this area are complemented
by faculty with related interests in the Departments of American
Civilization, Anthropology, History, History and Sociology of Science,
Urban Studies, and the Annenberg School of Communications.
Culture as a Field of Study
The sociology of culture seeks to understand how systems of meaning
shape and are shaped by social structure. This theme leads to the
examination of the nature and role of meaning systems in interpersonal
interaction and formal organizations as well as the nature and impact
of meaning systems in recorded cultures, including the arts and
the mass media.
Members of this cluster study the emergence, maintenance, and impact
of meaning systems in ethnic communities, urban neighborhoods, in
religious, medical, scientific, and political organizations, and
in the arts and the mass media. Methodological perspectives that
inform this work include historical methods, field methods, surveys,
and analysis of texts.
The cluster is integrated with other fields in the Department,
such as medicine and health, family and gender, urban social organization,
and formal organizations.
DEPARTMENT FACULTY WITH INTERESTS
IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
Harold
Bershady (emeritus), author of Ideology and Social
Knowledge.
Charles
Bosk, author of Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical
Failure.
Randall
Collins, author of Sociology of Philosophies.
Diana Crane
(emerta), author of The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The
New York Art World, 1948-1985.
David
Grazian, author of The Fashion of Their Dreams: Chicago
Blues Clubs and the Search for Authenticity.
Robin Leidner,
Gender, Work, Culture.
Author of Fast Food, Fast Talk.
Melissa Wilde, Author of Vatican II: A Sociological Study of Religious Change, forthcoming with Princeton University Press in 2008
Last Modified:
11-Apr-2008
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