The Cultural Turn

This is the website of the Cultural Turn Conference Series (organized by Roger Friedland and John Mohr) held at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1997.

The Cultural Turn conferences are dedicated to the productive exchange of ideas shared by scholars from the humanities and the social sciences on the character, meaning, and role of culture and interpretation in social life.

Scholarship embraces traditrional hermeneutics as well as more formalist approaches to meaning, cultural formations and institutional systems.

A collection of papers from past
Cultural Turn Conferences:
Matters of Culture:
Cultural Sociology in Practice,

edited by Roger Friedland & John Mohr
(2004, from Cambridge University Press)

Cultural Turn IV

March 7-8, 2003

Roger Friedland

Feb 5-7, 1999

Cultural Turn II