The Impacts Of The Cultural Turn On Western Sociology In The 20～(th) Century

Every social theory has its own background for its emergence and existence, and sociology is not an exception. The background of the western sociology facing the 20th century was post-industrialism named by Daniel Bell and Late Capitalism proposed by Fredric Jameson. This background is characterized by the fact that culture was involved in every academic subject and field and our daily life, that research on culture reached out to every subject, such as literature, mass media, advertisements and cartoons, even to architectural styles, which has approached to the point where culture tended to encompass all different subjects by stringing them together. Consequently, the research field of sociology had to be expanded to cover the entire social background based on cultures.This situation constituted a huge challenge to traditional sociology that has been viewing structural explanation pattern as The Bible in sociology. In order to extricate itself from the difficult position and to rebuild its Legitimation, western sociology, facing many difficulties...