Adams / Clemens / Orloff Remaking Modernity

Politics, History, and Sociology
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8588-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 627 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

A sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, trans

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Julia

Clemens, Elisabeth S.

Orloff, Ann Shola

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology / Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff 1

Part I: Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings

The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct / Richard Biernacki 75

Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology's Global Imagination / Zine Magubene 92

The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology / George Steinmetz 109

Part II: State Formation and Historical Sociology

The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology / Philip S. Gorski 161

Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity / Ann Shola Orloff 190

The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism / Edgar Kiser and Justin Baer 225

Part III: History and Political Contention

Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among the States / Meyer Kestnbaum 249

Historical Sociology and Collective Action / Roger V. Gould 286

Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity / Nader Sohrabi 300

Part IV: Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm

Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context / Bruce G. Carruthers 333

The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms / Rebecca Jean Emigh 355

The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity / Ming-Cheng M. Lo 381

Part V: Politics, History, and Collective Identities

Nations / Lyn Spillman and Russell Faeges 409

Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social / Margaret R. Somers 438

Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubake 470

Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change / Elisabeth S. Clemens 493

References 517

Contributors 599

Index 603

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Adams is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. She is the author of The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.Elisabeth Clemens is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of the Interest Group.Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is States, Markets, Families: Gender, Social Policy, and Liberalism in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States (with Julia O’Connor and Sheila Shaver).