Cultural Sociology of Fashion: On the Sartorial, Symbolic and Social

Sociologists of fashion have for a long time claimed that fashion is underexplored, or outright ignored, by ‘mainstream’ sociology. While this may be true to some extent, the significance of sociology and sociological theories to fashion studies is great. In the quickly growing field of fashion scholarship, the conceptual tools provided by sociology are of utmost importance. This chapter seeks to offer an overview of the uses of sociology when exploring fashion phenomena