Welcome

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…

News

Thesis 11 Cover
July 14, 2025
The new issue of Thesis Eleven, edited by CCS Faculty Fellows Frédéric Vandenberghe and Jean-François Côté, Theoretical Logic in Cultural Sociology. Social Theorists Discuss...
July 11, 2025
Congratulations to CCS Junior Fellow Jessie Dong, whose paper, “How does mythic love endure in modernity? Exploring romantic love’s cultural structure and structure of...
Isabel Jijon, Good Kids
July 7, 2025
Congratulations to CCS alum and Faculty Fellow Isabel Jijón, who has published Good Kids: The Politics of Child Labor in the Global South,  as part of the Culture and...