Remaking Modernity
Politics, History, and Sociology
Will be published approx. on 1. February 2005
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632 pages
978-0-8223-3363-0 (ISBN)
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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
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
Reviews / Votes
"Remaking Modernity is the best representation available of the large and excellent generation of American historical sociologists now becoming prominent in the discipline."-Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council "Here, all in one volume, is the best of the rising generation of historical sociologists, applying their craft to themselves, reflecting on their antecedents in order to chart our discipline's futures. Ranging across multiple fields, wrestling with the Marxist-inspired iconoclasm of second-wave historical sociology, this is sure to become a definitive text of the third wave."-Michael Burawoy, University of California, BerkeleyMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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6 illus.
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
881 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-3363-0 (9780822333630)
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Julia Adams | Elisabeth S. Clemens | Ann Shola Orloff
Remaking Modernity
Politics, History, and Sociology
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
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
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