Sociology and culture

Two general questions need to be answered in order to define a manageable way of addressing a topic as forbiddingly large as the relations between sociology and cultural analysis. The first is whether to define these relations as the province of a particular and specialized area of work within sociology, or whether to consider them as pointing to a more general field of problems and issues that have broader implications for the pursuit of sociology more generally. In the second conception, attention focuses on the role of cultural factors in organizing social life.