Cultural and creative industries are now an established area of academic research. Yet, the welcome innovations that are associated with the development of a new field of study are also matched by confusions and conjectures. The term itself, ‘cultural and creative industries’, is the subject of extensive debate. It goes hand in hand with closely related concepts such as ‘creative economy’, as well as reflecting definitional struggles aimed at conjoining or demarcating the creative and the cultural. Many of these debates have been the subject of sociological research and research in Sociology. This collection considers that specific role of sociology, and Sociology, to the study of cultural and creative industries. The e-special issue collects articles ranging from early empirical and theoretical precursors to the formal establishment of cultural and creative industries as a field of study, to more recent work considering the coherence and usefulness of the category itself.

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社会学、社会学与文化创意产业

文化和创意产业现在是一个既定的学术研究领域。然而，与新研究领域的发展相关的受欢迎的创新也伴随着困惑和猜想。“文化和创意产业”这个词本身就是一个广泛争论的话题。它与“创意经济”等密切相关的概念密切相关，也反映了旨在将创意与文化结合或划分界限的定义斗争。许多这些辩论一直是社会学研究和社会学研究的主题。该系列考虑了社会学和社会学在研究文化和创意产业中的具体作用。