Zeitschrift

Theory, Culture & Society

Website: https://www.theoryculturesociety.org/about-theory-culture-society
Erscheint: 6 issues/year

Theory, Culture & Society was launched in 1982 to cater for the resurgence of interest in culture in the social sciences. It has built up a large international and multidisciplinary readership through its ability to raise and discuss emergent social and cultural issues in an open, non-partisan manner.

Theory, Culture & Society has sought to critically explore the relationship between culture and society and advocated a more central role for social and cultural theory in understanding social life. TCS has worked across the borderlines between sociology and cultural studies, the social sciences and the humanities and has moved towards a broader transdisciplinary frame of reference.

Because we increasingly see the need to rethink many of the existing Western-centred knowledge classifications in a more dialogical global context, the scope of the journal, in terms of the issues addressed, contributors and readership, has become increasingly global. One indicator of this has been the development of the TCS New Encyclopaedia Project since 2001 with the first volume of the project produced as a Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge in 2006.

The Theory, Culture & Society Book Series has published so far more than 150 titles. The series includes volumes by many of the leading figures in the field such as: Jean Baudrillard, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Pierre Bourdieu, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Norman Denzin, Norbert Elias, Scott Lash, Michel Maffesoli, Roland Robertson, Nigel Thrift, Bryan Turner, John Urry and Michel Wieviorka.