社会学哲学博士-文化

随着社会科学中的“文化转向”，文化社会学已经重新出现，从而产生了一些最令人兴奋的社会学研究。在UCI，文化“α”（无论是定义为实践，符号，话语还是“意义”系统）在社会互动的背景下进行了多重分析。文化建设，竞争和传播的动力是重点研究重点。部门成员还关心以经验方式说明在解释各种社会学现象时文化相对于其他变量有多重要。UCI的文化社会学家采用了一系列理论和方法论方法，从宏观制度主义的“世界政体”模型到社会心理学和互动主义的观点，从投资流的时间序列分析到在线对话的话语分析。的确，UCI的文化焦点范围广，宏观和微观
With the ''cultural turn'' in the social sciences, the sociology of culture has re-emerged to produce some of the most exciting research in sociology. At UCI, culture – whether defined as practices, symbols, discourse, or systems of meaning – is treated in the context of social interaction at multiple levels of analysis. Dynamics of cultural construction, contention, and diffusion are key research foci. Department members also share a concern with showing empirically just how much culture matters relative to other variables in accounting for diverse sociological phenomena. Sociologists of culture at UCI employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, from macro-institutionalist ''world polity'' models to social psychological and interactionist perspectives, and from time-series analyses of investment flows to discourse analysis of online conversations. Indeed, the remarkable range of substantive foci, coverage of both macro- and micro- perspectives, and use of sophisticated qualitative and quantitative methodologies that characterize the sociology of culture at UCI make it unique among sociology departments.<br><br>Faculty members' research overlaps with a number of other fields within the Department, especially political sociology/social movements, organizations, social inequality, global change, gender, race/ethnicity, and research methods. Faculty members also collaborate with faculty in other UCI departments and schools, especially, Anthropology, Criminology, Law, and Society, Education, and Planning, Policy and Design.