Logics of history : social theory and social transformation
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press,
2009
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| Édition: | [Nachdr.] |
| Titres liés à la collection: | Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
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| Sujets: | Social sciences and history History |
| Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource (425 p) |
Table des matières:
- Contents; Preface; 1. Theory, History, and Social Science; 2. The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian; 3. Three Temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology; 4. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation; 5. The Concept(s) of Culture; 6. History, Synchrony, and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Clifford Geertz; 7. A Theory of the Event: Marshall Sahlins's ""Possible Theory of History""; 8. Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille
- 9. Historical Duration and Temporal Complexity: The Strange Career of Marseille's Dockworkers, 1814-7010. Refiguring the ""Social"" in Social Science: An Interpretivist Manifesto; References; Index