What Does 'Sociology of Culture' Mean? Notes on a Few Trans-Cultural Misunderstandings

The article clarifies on the misunderstanding between French-speaking scholars and English-speaking scholars in the field of sociology of arts and culture. It defines the ambiguities in the definition of arts, culture, and sociology in relation to the Anglo-American academic traditions as they are being understood in the linguistic context. It stresses that the linguistic dissymmetry between the post-modernist Anglo-American and French theory must be understood to avoid misunderstandings