Cultural sociology has become a focal point for the theoretical and empirical expansion of sociology. This volume explores the potentials of such a cultural scientific reorientation of sociology through a series of studies. Several questions are central to this inquiry: What can the concept of culture as an observational category achieve? To what extent do social practices play a special role in such a cultural sociology? How can subjectivation and identity be examined within the framework of a cultural sociology of modernity? What significance does the aesthetic hold in this context? Finally, how can cultural sociology benefit from poststructuralism?.