To encourage research of high quality on the arts and culture more generally, within and between countries. To fulfill this purpose the Committee engages in the following activities: it organizes sessions of the Sociology of the Arts at the meetings of the ISA; it sponsors international seminars on topics of theoretical, methodological or substantive importance in this field; it arranges for publication on matters related to research; develops an international roster of sociologists of the arts and culture, and organizations involved in similar pursuit; it fosters cross- national sociological research through the international membership in the research committee meetings, newsletter and other correspondence; it seeks to keep its members informed of RC37 activities; it engages in additional activities to disseminate its activities and encourage intellectual networks in and among many countries.

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President
Jeffrey Halley, University of San Antonio, USA, jeffrey.halley@utsa.edu
Secretary
Jean-Louis Fabiani, Institut fur Europaische Ethnologie, Germany, fabiani.jean-louis@wanadoo.fr
Board Members
Ian Glenn, University of Capetown, South Africa
Antoine Hennion, Ecole des Mines, Paris, France
Marta Herrero, University of Plymouth, UK
Jan Marontate, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Paulo Menezes, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
Alain Quemin, University of Marne-la-Valle / Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Arturo Rodriguez Morato, University of Barcelona, Spain
Vera Zolberg, New School for Social Research, New York, USA

RC37 Newsletter is available in French, English and Spanish. 

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