| Abstract: | Sociological theory which is dominated by structuralism paradigm faced with a series of crisis and predicament, and has given rise to a turn of cultural. It reviews and reflects critically the concept, development context and theoretical paradigms change of cultural sociology about domestic and foreign helps to gain insight into concerns and explanatory power of cultural sociology responding China’s current social issues. This article summarizes theoretical context of cultural sociology and its three leading research paradigms (culture-structuralism paradigm, stratification-class perspective, and strong-weak cultural program), and find that although the three paradigms have their own critically advantages, but faced with the common problem that is hard to jump out of the duality between culture and structure. Besides, this article tries to put forward an integrated research paradigm of cultural sociology, and in order to respond to the China’s indigenization of sociology and current social real issues. |
