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Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) provides a focus for meaning-centered analysis in the social science tradition. The CCS incorporates scholars from diverse backgrounds, sharing an interest in understanding how culture informs and structures social life and its problems. Read more…

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April 15, 2024
The Yale Center for Cultural Sociology is hosting the conference, “Working towards Meaning Together: Jeffrey Alexander’s Legacy for Sociology,” marking the retirement of...
April 15, 2024
CCS Faculty Fellow Anna Lund has recently published, “Laughter and civil repair: A stage-audience encounter,” in the journal Poetics. Abstract: A world in movement is...
March 21, 2024
CCS Junior Fellow Nicolás Rudas shares his newest publication, “Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia” in Cultural Sociology. Abstract: In...