David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Anna-Mari Almila is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

The Sage Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents a broad, learned, and generous collection of essays discussing the prominent place of culture in society and in Sociology. The essays illuminate the ways sociologists have thought about the what, where, and how of such cultural phenomena as art, music, memory, media, religion, consumption, and nationalism. A great compendium for anyone wanting a foundational understanding of cultural sociology.

• Introduction - David InglisPART 1: SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTMarxist Cultural Sociology - Paul JonesMax Weber’s Presences: On the Cultural Sociology of the Long-Term - David InglisThe Cultural Sociology of Alfred Weber and Karl Mannheim - Colin LoaderDurkheimian and Neo-Durkheimian Cultural Sociologies - David InglisA Qualitative Theory of Culture: Georg Simmel and Cultural Sociology - Eduardo de la FuenteBourdieu’s Sociology of Culture: On the Economy of Symbolic Goods - Gisèle SapiroSymbolic Interactionism’s Contribution to the Study of Culture - Norman DenzinCognition and Cultural Sociology: The Inside and Outside of Thought - Karen A. CeruloActor Network Theory and Its Cultural Uses - Anna-Mari AlmilaNeoinstitutionalist Sociology - Pertti AlasuutariThe Cultural Worth of ‘Economies of Worth’: French Pragmatic Sociology from a Cultural Sociological Perspective - Ilana F. SilberSystems Theory and Culture: Drawing Lessons from Parsons and Luhmann - Rudi LaermansThe ‘Production of Culture Perspective’ in Perspective - Marco SantoroCultural Historical Sociology - Chandra MukerjiPART 2: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHESQuantitative Analysis in Cultural Sociology: Why It Should be Done, How It Can Be Done - Dick Houtman & Peter AchterbergQualitative Cultural Sociology - Thomas S. EberleMultiple Correspondence Analysis - Julien DuvalHermeneutics and Cultural Sociology - Jonathan RobergeSocial Network Analysis - Nick CrossleyEthnography and the Sociology of Culture - John HughsonPART 3: DISCIPLINARITY & INTERDISCIPLINARITYSociology and Cultural Studies: A Close and Fraught Relationship - David InglisVisual Culture Studies and Cultural Sociology: Extractive Seeing - Janet StewartQueering Gender, Art and Culture in the Age of Media Convergence - Mary KosutPART 4: CULTURE & SOCIETYSymbolic Boundaries - Bethany BrysonCultural Sociology of Religion and Beliefs - Laura EdlesEveryday Life: The Making of a Sociological Topic, Then Making it ‘Cultural Sociology’ - Rachel Hurdley′Turn Turn Turn!’ Musicalizing Cultural Sociology with the ‘in Action’ Perspective - Tia DeNoraPART 5: CULTURE & POLITICSCultural Citizenship - Nick StevensonDimensions of Culture in Social Movement Research - Hank JohnstonCultural Nationalism - Eric Taylor WoodsCultural Sociology of News Media - Ron JacobsCultural Memory - Brad WestPART 6: ARTS & AESTHETICS(Cultural) Sociologies of Architecture? - Paul JonesFor a Sociology of the Cinema - Tatiana Signorelli Heise & Andrew TudorWitnessing Culture: Museums, Exhibitions and the Artistic Encounter - Nail Farkhatdinov & Sophia Krzys AcordCultural Sociology of Fashion: On the Sartorial, Symbolic and Social - Anna-Mari AlmilaPopular Music and Cultural Sociology - Andy BennettIconicity - Dominic BartmanskiThe Cultural Sociology of Markets - Fred WherryPART 7: CULTURE & CONSUMPTIONCultural Consumption and Cultural Omnivorousness - David WrightCultural Sociology: Brands - Sonia BookmanCultural Sociology of Ethical Consumption - Matthias Varul