Preliminary Introductory Meeting

We envision this year’s Culture Workshop as a forum that focuses on sociology graduate students’ interests in Cultural Sociology. We want to offer a platform that is student-centered and student-driven, and inviting and open to all levels of interest. Working from within a framework that endorses co-sharing, co-exploration, co-support, and co-teaching, the forum invites sociology graduate students who are interested in Culture broadly constructed and wish to share some of their work in this field of study. The workshop is meant to be of value to students at all stages of cultural inquiry—those who are just beginning to consider how cultural sociologies may figure in their studies and those who are already carrying out planned research. We anticipate the sessions as a place of intellectual support, where collective discussion, sharing of ideas, exploring problems, as well as approaches and theoretical and case-based literatures, shall be considered.