Remaking Modernity

Politics, History, and Sociology

Autor: Adams, Julia; Clemens, Elisabeth S.; Orloff, Ann Shola; Steinmetz, George
Editor: Duke University Press
Colección: Politics, History, and Culture
ISBN: 9780822333524
eISBN Pdf: 9780822385882
Lugar de publicación: Durham , Estados Unidos
Año de publicación digital: 2005
Mes: Febrero
Páginas: 632
DDC: 301/.09
Idioma: Ingles

Descripción

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and cultural change. The volume captures an exciting new conversation among historical sociologists that brings a wider interdisciplinary project to bear on the problems and prospects of modernity.

The contributors represent a wide variety of theoretical orientations and a broad spectrum of understandings of what constitutes historical sociology. They address such topics as religion, war, citizenship, markets, professions, gender and welfare, colonialism, ethnicity, bureaucracy, revolutions, collective action, and the modernist social sciences themselves. Remaking Modernity includes a significant introduction in which the editors consider prior orientations in historical sociology in order to analyze the field’s resurgence. They show how current research is building on and challenging previous work through attention to institutionalism, rational choice, the cultural turn, feminist theories and approaches, and colonialism and the racial formations of empire.

Contributors
Julia Adams
Justin Baer
Richard Biernacki
Bruce Carruthers
Elisabeth Clemens
Rebecca Jean Emigh
Russell Faeges
Philip Gorski
Roger Gould
Meyer Kestnbaum
Edgar Kiser
Ming-Cheng Lo
Zine Magubane
Ann Shola Orloff
Nader Sohrabi
Margaret Somers
Lyn Spillman
George Steinmetz

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology
Part I Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings
- The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct
- Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology’s Global Imagination
- The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology
Part II State Formation and Historical Sociology
- The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology
- Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity
- The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism
Part III History and Political Contention
- Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among States
- Historical Sociology and Collective Action
- Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity
Part IV Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm
- Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context
- The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms
- The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity
Part V Politics, History, and Collective Identities
- Nations
- Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social
- Ethnicity without Groups
Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change
References
Contributors
Index