SOCIOL 191RUndergraduate Seminar: Cultural Sociology
Sociology · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to juniors/seniors. Introduction to classic theoretical approaches and contemporary developments in study of social worlds dedicated to creating and handling cultural institutions such as literature, journalism, film/television, art, architecture, music, dance, and museums. Discussion of such issues as contemporary validity of distinction between high and popular/low culture, relationship of mainstream and marginal culture, how culture expresses and reinforces social inequality, organizational context of culture, and how people express and decipher meaning in cultural objects. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.