Talk:Sociology of culture

message: this article is much better than it was a couple months ago-- but it still has some important areas for improvement. --Htw3 18:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  good progress 

message: There is much more going on in the study of culture in sociology than just cmc related work.  y'all might want to take a look at Culture and Cognition
P DiMaggio - Annual Review of Sociology, 1997 - Annual Reviews.  He focuses on the relation between cognition and culture-- but I know that he mentions important work elsewhere in the sociology of culture near the start of his review article.  It would also be good to mention sub-areas of culture where there is a good amount of research:  sports, popular culture, religion, diffusion.--Htw3 18:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  current research 

message: I tried to demonstrate the need to make some additions throughout the article that help the reader understand how the included parts fit together.  That is another important direction for improvement.  --Htw3 19:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tie the parts together 

message: connection to a variety of topics in wikipedia need to be made explicit:  qualitative research, ethnography, critical theory, cultural studies, sociology of religion, comparative sociology. . . .--Htw3 19:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wikify 

message: Its difficult to understand how the pieces fit together into one whole from reading the page. There are gaps in information from section to section. It assumes that you already have a profound knowledge of the topic. Maybe a short background could be given? Possibly new sections could be included to avoid this in the future?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markov26 (talk • contribs) 01:37, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNTITLED 

message: Cultural Sociology redirects here, but this is not correct, the whole point of the subject being named as such is to make a distinction from Sociology of Culture!158.223.169.20 (talk) 17:19, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural Sociology 

message: First:
For Georg Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history".
Second:
By way of contrast, Jeffrey C. Alexander introduced the term cultural sociology, an approach that sees all, or most, social phenomena as inherently cultural at some level. For instance, a leading proponent of the "strong program" in cultural sociology, Alexander argues: "To believe in the possibility of cultural sociology is to subscribe to the idea that every action, no matter how instrumental, reflexive, or coerced [compared to] its external environment, is embedded to some extent in a horizon of affect and meaning."
Third: 
For instance, Pierre Bourdieu's cultural sociology has a "clear recognition of the social and the economic as categories which are interlinked with, but not reducible to, the cultural."
; my own observation
After encountering ten of thousands of Wikipedia leads (and actually touching a fair percentage of these myself, mostly with minor edits) I've come to the opinion that leads, such as this one, too much built around direct quotation from eminent voices (though not recognizable as such to the cold-contact outsider) creates a "stasis" effect which discourages evolution of the lead toward clear, declarative summarization of the article content. 
What you get instead—it seems to be—is a lead too much invested in wrapping some kind of textual mood around the content that follows. Not on the first, or the tenth, or the one hundredth distinct point of contact did I finally come to this overarching conclusion, but this sticky penny did finally drop, FWIW. — MaxEnt 17:34, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long quotations dominate lead