Sociology of Culture

(ENV6) Culture and the Environment

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Thursday Jun 20 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 2120

Culture forms one central basis of how people think about and act in relation to the natural environment and environmental degradation. Environmental sociology examines how societies can produce problematic consequences ... more

(SCL-RC) Sociology of Culture Research Cluster Meeting

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The Sociology of Culture Research Cluster meeting is open to current members and those interested in learning more about our cluster activities. ... more

(SCL1) The question(s) of “x-topias”: possible ways for the future and/or sociology?

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Wednesday Jun 19 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1050

Sociology has always attempted to establish a space of order, a set of commonplaces, or a framework of experience that present themselves as the acceptable, ordinary, statistically average, normal, and ... more

(SCL10) Sociology of Space, Place, and Time

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Wednesday Jun 19 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1050

Social processes occur in space and over time (Maritn and Miler, 2003). Thus, social processes are intertwined with spatiality and temporality. Everything we study is emplaced ... place is not merely a ... more

(SCL2) Neglected Aspects of the Civil Sphere in Cultural Sociology: Testing the Extensions and Limits of a Concept

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Wednesday Jun 19 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wong Building - WONG 1050

Civil sphere has become a central theme in cultural sociology, mainly due to Jeffrey Alexander’s efforts at situating it as the core of political activities in a societal perspective (... more