Volker Kirchberg is a professor for sociology of the arts at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in Germany. His research fields are sociology of arts and culture, organizational arts sociology, studies of museums and society, and urban sociology. He has been section head and board member of the international sociological research networks of the European Sociological Association and of the International Sociological Association, as well as of the Association of Cultural Management Studies (of the German-speaking countries). His recent research interests lie in the interfaces of arts & culture, cities, and cultural sustainability.
Tasos Zembylas has been professor for cultural institutions studies at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien since 2003. He is member of the Advisory Board of the Research Network Sociology of Arts (European Sociological Association) and founding member of the Research Network on Implicit Knowledge (Forschungsnetzwerk Implizites Wissen). His research specializations include the sociology of artistic practices, public cultural policies, and the institutional analysis of arts.

Preface
Chapter 1 | Introduction

PART I
Chapter 2 | Art Worlds as Collectives
Chapter 3 | Fields of Cultural Production
Chapter 4 | The Organization of Art as a Social System
Chapter 5 | A Comparative Discussion of the Theories of Becker, Bourdieu and Luhmann

PART II
Chapter 6 | The Production of Culture Perspective
Chapter 7 | Sociological Neo-Institutionalism: Organization of Arts as a Social Construction
Chapter 8 | Cultural Institutions Studies
Chapter 9 | Comparing the Production of Culture Perspective, the Sociological Neo-Institutionalism and the Cultural Institutions Studies
Chapter 10 | Networking the Arts – Going Beyond the Discussed Theories

APPENDIX
References
List of Figures
Name Index
Subject Index