Firstly, the cultural sociology of positivism is put forward, and the evolutionary view of cultural sociology is put forward. It is believed that the distribution of culture, like the list of animals and plants, is determined by the natural geographical environment. A cultural history is the history of human beings' development from a low-level barbaric state to a high-level civilized state. The most representative cultural sociology theory of new positivism is the "technological determinism" of L.A. White in the United States. He believes that the development of technology is the basis of cultural evolution, and other factors are secondary.

The second is the cultural sociology of communication theory. Regard culture as a meaningful symbol and cultural communication as a process of individual interaction or communication. Symbolic interaction theory is based on the subjectivism of mutual understanding, but under the influence of modern natural science, it is increasingly moving towards the study of social and cultural structure process. Compared with the cultural communication theory of ethnology and cultural anthropology, it has more sociological significance in studying the social function of culture.

Third, it is the viewpoint of functional sociology, which holds that the production of culture is the need of social function, and the essence of culture lies in maintaining social norms and is a value tool. Culture is a tool of social structure system, and the exertion of cultural function is restricted by various social structure levels. Cultural system not only determines people's values, but also constitutes people's code of conduct.

The fourth is the theory of explaining the emergence and function of cultural phenomena with human psychology, which is called the cultural sociology of psychological theory.

Cultural sociology is a branch of sociology, which is the product of the application of cultural anthropology or social anthropology in modern social life and the combination with sociology. It is a discipline that studies the special laws of the emergence and development of culture and its social functions.