Historical Methods in the Social Sciences

Four-Volume Set
ISBN: 978-1-4129-0370-7
Verlag: Blue Rose Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 1664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 3130 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods

Historical methods are at the foundation of research in the social sciences. This synthesizing and integrative project on the methodology of historical social science addresses programmatic objectives, interpretive principles, explanatory logic, and substantive applications to form a unique contribution to the field.

Historical Methods in the Social Sciences offers the broadest disciplinary coverage available - with contributions from prominent historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, economists, psychologists, and philosophers - and also features a deeper and broader interdisciplinary engagement with the most pressing issues of theory and method. By republishing many of the most seminal contributions in the field of historical social science, this four-volume set draws together some of the most illuminating reflections on historical-sociological research practices presently available, and should thus serve as an indispensable scholarly source for all those engaged in this interdisciplinary enterprise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, John A

Bryant, Joseph M

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume One: Historical Social Science: Presuppositions and Prescriptions
Introduction
Towards Integration and Unity in the Human Sciences: The Project of Historical Sociology
A Classical Exordium
Critical Studies in the Logic of the Cultural Sciences - Max Weber
Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx
PART ONE: HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Unity and Diversity in the Human Sciences - Fernand Braudel
From Social History to the History of Society - Eric Hobsbawm
The Historical Method in Social Science - M M Postan
History, Sociology, Historical Sociology - Philip Abrams
Future History - Charles Tilly
History and Anthropology - Bernard Cohn
The State of Play
History and Anthropology - Clifford Geertz
Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? - Thorstein Veblen
Economic History and Economics - Robert Solow
Not Just What, but When - Paul Pierson
Timing and Sequence in Political Processes
The Use and Abuse of Psychology in History - Frank Manuel
Towards the Problem of the Historical Nature of Psychological Processes - Alexander Luria
Social Psychology as History - Kenneth Gergen
Volume Two: Foundations of Historical-Sociological Inquiry
Introduction
The Historicality of Human Social Existence: The Search for a Grounded, Synthesizing Analytics
PART TWO: Ontology of the Social-Historical
Section One: Nominalism, Social Realism and Dialectical Totality
Holism versus Individualism in History and Sociology - Ernest Gellner
Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences - J W N Watkins
Reply to Mr Watkins - Ernest Gellner
Sociology and Empirical Research - Theodore Adorno
Contributions to a Phenomenology of Historical Materialism - Herbert Marcuse
Reification and the Sociological Critique of Consciousness - Peter Berger and Stanley Pullberg
Explanation and Understanding - Paul Ricoeur
On Some Remarkable Connections among the Theory of the Text, Theory of Action and Theory of History
Morphogenesis versus Structuration - Margaret Archer
On Combining Structure and Action
Theory of Action, Dialectic and History - William Sewell Jr
Comment on Coleman
Actors and Actions in Social History and Social Theory - James Coleman
Reply to Sewell
Transcending General Linear Reality - Andrew Abbott
Section Two: Temporality and Causality
Temporality - Jean-Paul Sartre
Phenomenology of the Three Temporal Dimensions
Time - George Herbert Mead
History and the Social Sciences - Fernand Braudel
The Longue Dur[ac]ee
The TimeSpace of World-Systems Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein
Historical Sociology and Time - Ronald Aminzade
Temporality and Process in Social Life - Andrew Abbott
Causes, Connections and Conditions in History - Michael Scriven
History, Differential Equations and the Problem of Narration - Donald McCloskey
Comparing Historical Sequences - A Powerful Tool for Causal Analysis - Dietrich Rueschemeyer and John Stephens
Volume Three: The Logic of Historical-Sociological Inquiry
Introduction
Evidence, Interpretation and Explanation in Historical Social Science
PART THREE: EXPLANATORY DISPUTES AND CHALLENGES
Section One: From Laws That 'Cover' to Narratives That 'Bind'?
The Uses of History in Sociology - John Goldthorpe
Reflections on Some Recent Tendencies
Evidence and Explanation in History and Sociology - Joseph M Bryant
Critical Reflections on Goldthorpe's Critique of Historical Sociology
John Goldthorpe and the Relics of Sociology - Nicky Hart
In Defence of 'Grand' Historical Sociology - Nicos Mouzelis
In Praise of Macro-Sociology - A Reply to Goldthorpe - Michael Mann
Have Historical Sociologists Forsaken Theory - Jill Quadagno and Stan Knapp
Narrative and the Real World - David Carr
An Argument for Continuity
Section Two: Historical Evidence and the Logic of Hermeneutics
Evidence and Inference in History - Raymond Aron
Four Types of Inference from Documents to Events - Vernon K Dibble
Evidence

Über Autor(innen)

Hall, John A
John A. Hall is the James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the author of many books linking social theory with historical studies, constantly moving back-and-forth between these fields. His books include (with J. L. Campbell) The Paradox of Vulnerability: States, Nationalism and the Financial Crisis (Princeton, 2017), The World of States (with J. L. Campbell, Bloomsbury 2015), The Importance of Being Civil: The Struggle for Political Decency (Princeton, 2013), Ernest Gellner: An Intellectual Biography (Verso, 2010), International Orders (Polity, 1996), Coercion and Consent: Studies on the Modern State (Polity, 1994), Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market (Paladin, 1988), and Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West (Basil Blackwell, 1985).