社会学理学硕士-文化

文化社会学涉及利用社会学中已确立的概念对文化现象进行分析。社会学家对社会关系对文化的影响以及文化如何影响相互作用和社会结构感兴趣。文化是根据群体的知识，精神和美学成就以及这些群体的信念，规范，价值观和习俗来描述的。子区域包括阶级文化，宗教，教育，大众文化，科学，音乐，食物以及品味和生活方式。文化集中学院的成员研究了中产阶级，种族，篮球和美国梦的形成中的种族和社会改革，酷刑和战争罪行的审判文化，社区灾难的视觉表现，解放神学和天主教的社会运动，新媒体，法律意识，社区政治，家庭用餐习惯以及在快餐店里花费的时间。
Cultural sociology involves the analysis of cultural phenomena drawing on established concepts in sociology. Sociologists are interested in the effect that social relationships have on cultures and at the same time how culture informs interaction and social structure. Culture is described in terms of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic achievements of groups and the beliefs, norms, and values and customs of those groups. Subareas include class culture, religion, education, popular culture, science, music, food, and tastes and lifestyles.<br><br>Members of the culture concentration faculty have studied race and social reform in the making of the middle class, race, basketball and the American Dream, the culture of torture and war crime trials, visual representations of community disasters, liberation theology and Catholic social movements, new media, legal consciousness, and the politics of community, family meal rituals and time spent in fast food restaurants.