Cultural Sociology

Aims & Scope

Cultural Sociology publishes empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts.

The objective of Cultural Sociology is to publish original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture.

The journal seeks to consolidate, develop and promote the arena of sociological understandings of culture, and is intended to be pivotal in defining both what this arena is like currently and what it could become in the future.

Cultural Sociology will publish innovative, sociologically-informed work concerned with cultural processes and artefacts, broadly defined.

Papers dealing with empirically-existing cultural phenomena, analysed and researched in theoretically and methodologically sophisticated ways, are particularly encouraged.

Papers that concentrate on more 'empirical', or more 'methodological', or more 'theoretical' issues in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture, are also welcomed.

The journal aims to facilitate fruitful dialogue and cooperation between scholars from different national contexts and between those working within different analytic and methodological paradigms.

Although focussed on sociological contributions to cultural analysis, the journal will also encourage discussions between sociologists and others working in cognate fields such as cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, art history, history, literary and film studies, human geography and so on.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6691

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	257

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.808

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	46

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Those Things That Hold Us Together: Taste and Sociology

  Citation: 338

  Authors: Antoine

• Seeing Like a Survey

  Citation: 263

  Authors: John

• Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Globalization, Education and Stratification

  Citation: 215

  Authors: Hiroki, Hiro

• Understanding Cultural Omnivorousness: Or, the Myth of the Cultural Omnivore

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Alan, David, Modesto

• The Social and the Aesthetic: For a Post-Bourdieuian Theory of Cultural Production

  Citation: 162

  Authors: Georgina

• Worlds, Fields and Networks: Becker, Bourdieu and the Structures of Social Relations

  Citation: 155

  Authors: Wendy, Nick

• Bourdieu, Historicity, and Historical Sociology

  Citation: 104

  Authors: George

• Human Rights and the Triumph of the Individual in World Culture

  Citation: 103

  Authors: Michael A.

• The Divisive Power of Humour: Comedy, Taste and Symbolic Boundaries

  Citation: 96

  Authors: Sam, Giselinde

• The `New Sociology of Art': Putting Art Back into Social Science Approaches to the Arts

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Eduardo

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