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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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Jeffrey Alexander
November 27, 2023
The 2023 conference of the Civil Sphere Theory Working Group was held on October 18th and 19th in Heidelberg, Germany. The organizing committee included Jeffrey Alexander (...
November 27, 2023
CCS Faculty Fellow Todd Madigan most recent publication, “Inverted Totems: On the Significance of “Woke” in the Culture Wars,” has recently been published in the journal...
Jeffrey Alexander
November 13, 2023
Congratulations to CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander, who has been awarded the honorary academic degree of doctor honoris causa at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. See the...