Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of relations constituting them. Critical to exploring the intersections of culture and structure are relational methodologies, especially geometric data analysis (GDA) and social network analysis (SNA). Over the years, these two perspectives – as distinct strategies or in combination with one another – have been proved well-suited to understand the inherent relationality of cultural phenomena. The present editorial takes stock of the development of such analytical frameworks to look at the recent progress in the study of cultural structures, in continuity with a tradition of sociological research most especially disseminated through Poetics. It develops three core elements in the sociological study of culture: the relational theory mobilised in such study, its relational focus in terms of the cultural entities studied, and its relational methodologies. This special issue gathers ten empirical papers that span cultural consumption, artistic and scientific fields, media usage, and knowledge production, employing various empirical tools available in GDA and SNA to map relational structures in culture. It thus offers new insights into the interplay between culture and structure and provides valuable tools and perspectives for future research in cultural sociology.

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绘制文化中的关系结构

文化是一个关系概念，文化的经验表现值得从结构的角度进行分析，以揭示构成它们的关系模式。探索文化和结构交叉点的关键是关系方法，尤其是几何数据分析 （GDA） 和社交网络分析 （SNA）。多年来，这两种观点——作为不同的策略或相互结合——已被证明非常适合理解文化现象的内在关系。本社论回顾了这种分析框架的发展，以着眼于文化结构研究的最新进展，这与社会学研究的传统相延续，尤其是通过诗学传播的传统。它发展了文化社会学研究的三个核心要素：在此类研究中调动的关系理论、其对所研究的文化实体的关系关注及其关系方法。本期特刊收集了十篇实证论文，涵盖文化消费、艺术和科学领域、媒体使用和知识生产，采用 GDA 和 SNA 中可用的各种实证工具来绘制文化中的关系结构。因此，它为文化与结构之间的相互作用提供了新的见解，并为未来的文化社会学研究提供了有价值的工具和视角。