Sociology Of Culture, including: Ethnocentrism, Ethnology, Racism, Multiculturalism, Culture Shock, Cultural Identity, Cultural Critic, ... Multiracism, Culture Gap, Auto-segregation

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More info: The sociology of culture concerns culture-usually understood as sets of cognitive meanings-as it is manifested in society. 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". Whilst early theorists such as Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss were influential in cultural anthropology, sociologists of culture are generally distinguished by a concern for modern (rather than ancient or primitive) societies. Cultural sociology may loosely be regarded as an approach incorporating cultural analysis and critical theory. Cultural sociologists tend to reject scientific methods, instead hermeneutically focusing on words, artifacts and symbols. Non-positivist methodology is dominant in the field.