Culture, Values and Practices
Our research is concerned with the representation, interpretation and evaluation of culture.
We consider how specific cultural forms and values are made and lived in practice. Our research spans a range of topics from popular culture and everyday life to cultural institutions and industries.
We challenge and assess ongoing social and cultural changes; critically analysing transformations of media and citizenship, social inequalities and trends. Our work evaluates cultural participation, engagement and disengagement on an international scale.
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Gareth Millington
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
gareth.millington@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 32 3058
Related links
- Centre for URBan Research
- European Centre for Cultural Exploration
- Professor David Beer Popular culture, new media cultures, cultural theory, digital methods.
- Dr Laurie Hanquinet Culture, stratification, cities, cosmopolitanism.
- Dr Steph Lawler Social equalities and social identities (particularly class, gender and generation), theoretical work of Bourdieu and Goffman.
- Dr Xiaodong Lin Gender and migration, men and masculinities, gender and class, cultural values and China.
- Professor Sharon Macdonald Social memory, museums and heritage, identity and ethnicity, anthropological theory and ethnography.
- Dr Daryl Martin Architectural theory, cultural geography, social and cultural theory, urban sociology.
- Dr Gareth Millington
Urban sociology, race and racism and urban culture.
- Dr Ruth Penfold-Mounce Celebrity, media, death, crime.
- Dr Tom O'Brien Environmental sociology, democratisation, social movements and political leadership.
- Dr Katy Sian De/Postcolonialism, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Identity and Diaspora.
- Dr Anna Strhan Sociology of religion, non-religion, morality ethics and values, evangelicalism, religion and parenting.
- Dr Frances Thirlway
Popular culture, cultural value, cultural participation, working-class street parade traditions, marching bands and majorettes in UK and Northern Europe.
- Matt Coward-Gibbs
- Amy Holmes
- Camila Toledo Orbeta
- Kelly Richards D'Arcy-Reed
- Carol Robinson
- Victor Torres
- Jing Wu
- Manli Zhu
- Yehang Wang
Project spotlights
- Archiving the city
- Curating profusion: caring for the future and assembling value in homes and smaller museums
- Non-religious childhood: growing up unbelieving in contemporary Britain
- Religious urbanisation and infrastructural lives in African mega-cities
- The Global Smile Project
- Unsettling scientific stories: expertise, narrative and future histories
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Gareth Millington
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
gareth.millington@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 32 3058
Related links
- Centre for URBan Research
- European Centre for Cultural Exploration