American Journal of Cultural Sociology

期刊简介：From modernity's onset, social theorists have been announcing the death of meaning, at the hands of market forces, impersonal power, scientific expertise, and the pervasive forces of rationalization and industrialization. Yet, cultural structures and processes have proved surprisingly resilient. Relatively autonomous patterns of meaning - sweeping narratives and dividing codes, redolent if elusive symbols, fervent demands for purity and cringing fears of pollution - continue to exert extraordinary effects on action and institutions. They affect structures of inequality, racism and marginality, gender and sexuality, crime and punishment, social movements, market success and citizen incorporation. New and old new media project continuous symbolic reconstructions of private and public life. As contemporary sociology registered the continuing robustness of cultural power, the new discipline of cultural sociology was born. How should these complex cultural processes be conceptualized? What are the best empirical ways to study social meaning? Even as debates rage around these field-specific theoretical and methodological questions, a broadly cultural sensibility has spread into every arena of sociological study, illuminating how struggles over meaning affect the most disparate processes of contemporary social life.Bringing together the best of these studies and debates, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology (AJCS) publicly crystallizes the cultural turn in contemporary sociology. By providing a common forum for the many voices engaged in meaning-centered social inquiry, the AJCS will facilitate communication, sharpen contrasts, sustain clarity, and allow for periodic condensation and synthesis of different perspectives. The journal aims to provide a single space where cultural sociologists can follow the latest developments and debates within the field. The American Journal of Cultural Sociology is indexed by SCOPUS, a database listing journals and country scientific indicators and rankings, and is also indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science Core Collection, in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). SSCI provides searchable author abstracts for the leading journals in 55 social science disciplines, with a comprehensive backfile of cited reference data from 1900 to the present. AJCS’s inclusion in the SSCI provides greater discoverability for the journal and allows for real-time insight into the citation performance.We welcome high quality submissions of any length and focus: contemporary and historical studies, macro and micro, institutional and symbolic, ethnographic and statistical, philosophical and methodological. Contemporary cultural sociology has developed from European and American roots, and today is an international field. The AJCS will publish rigorous, meaning-centered sociology whatever its origins and focus, and will distribute it around the world.

【译文】从现代性的开始，社会理论家们一直在宣布意义的死亡，这是市场力量、非个人权力、科学专业知识和理性化和工业化的普遍力量所导致的。然而，文化结构和过程证明出人意料的坚韧。相对自主的意义模式——宏大的叙事和分割的代码、令人陶醉但难以捉摸的象征、对纯洁的热切追求和对污染的恐惧——继续对行动和制度产生非凡的影响。它们影响不平等的结构、种族主义和边缘化、性别和性取向、犯罪和惩罚、社会运动、市场成功和公民融合。新旧媒体不断对私人生活和公共生活进行持续的象征性重建。随着当代社会学记录文化力量的持续强劲，新的学科文化社会学应运而生。这些复杂的文化过程应该如何概念化？研究社会意义最好的经验方法是什么？尽管围绕这些特定领域的理论和方法论问题争论激烈，但广泛的文化敏感性已经渗透到社会学研究的每一个领域，阐明了意义斗争如何影响当代社会生活的最不同过程。汇集这些研究和辩论的精华，美国文化社会学杂志（AJCS）公开结晶了当代社会学的文化转向。通过为参与以意义为中心的社会调查的众多声音提供一个共同的论坛，AJCS将促进沟通、突出对比、保持清晰，并允许定期浓缩和综合不同观点。该杂志旨在提供一个单一的空间，让文化社会学家可以跟踪该领域的最新发展和辩论。美国文化社会学杂志被SCOPUS索引，这是一个列出期刊和国家科学指标及排名的数据库，并且也被索引在汤姆森路透的Web of Science核心集合中，在社会科学引文索引（SSCI）中。SSCI为55个社会科学学科的领先期刊提供可搜索的作者摘要，并从1900年到现在的引用参考文献数据提供全面的存档。AJCS的SSCI收录提供了更大的可发现性，并允许实时洞察期刊的引用表现。我们欢迎任何长度和重点的高质量投稿：当代和历史研究、宏观和微观、制度性和象征性、民族志和统计、哲学和方法论。当代文化社会学起源于欧洲和美国，如今已成为一个国际领域。AJCS将出版无论其起源和重点如何的严谨、以意义为中心的社会学，并将其传播到世界各地。