Remaking Modernity

Julia Adams et al.; (Eds.)

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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.ContributorsJulia AdamsJustin BaerRichard BiernackiBruce CarruthersElisabeth ClemensRebecca Jean EmighRussell FaegesPhilip GorskiRoger GouldMeyer KestnbaumEdgar KiserMing-Cheng LoZine MagubaneAnn Shola OrloffNader SohrabiMargaret SomersLyn SpillmanGeorge Steinmetz

Sujets

• Histoire
• Sociology
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822385882
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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remaking modernity

POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE A series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan.Series Editors: George Steinmetz and Julia Adams.Series Editorial Advisory Board:Fernando Coronil, Mamadou Diouf, Geo√ Eley, Fatma Müge Göçek, Nancy Rose Hunt, Webb Keane, David Laitin, Lydia Liu, Julie Skurski, Margaret Somers, Ann Laura Stoler, Katherine Verdery, and Elizabeth Wingrove.

Sponsored by the International Institute at the University of Michigan and published by Duke University Press, this series is centered around cultural and historical studies of power, poli- tics, and the state—a field that cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural studies. The focus on the relationship between state and culture refers both to a methodological approach—the study of politics and the state using culturalist methods—and to a substantive one that treats signifying practices as an essential dimension of politics. The dialectic of politics, culture, and history figures prominently in all the books se- lected for the series.

REMAKING MODERNITY

edited by

Politics, History, and Sociology

julia adams, elisabeth s. clemens, and ann shola orloff

duke university press

durham and london 2005

∫2005 Duke University Press

All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Typeset in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

In memory of our friend, Roger V. Gould

Contents

Acknowledgments

x

i

julia adams, elisabeth s. clemens, and ann shola orloff Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology1

part iHistorical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings

richard biernacki The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct 75

zine magubane Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology’s Global Imagination 92

george steinmetz The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology109

part ii

State Formation and Historical Sociology

philip s. gorski The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology161

ann shola orloff Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity190

edgar kiser and justin baer The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism

part iii

225

History and Political Contention

meyer kestnbaum Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among States 249

roger v. gould Historical Sociology and Collective Action

nader sohrabi Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity

part iv

300

286

Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm

bruce g. carruthers Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context 333

rebecca jean emigh The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms

355

ming-cheng m. lo The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity381

part v

Politics, History, and Collective Identities

lyn spillman and russell faeges Nations 409

margaret r. somers Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social 438

rogers brubaker Ethnicity without Groups

470

elisabeth s. clemens Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change 493

References 517 Contributors 599 Index 603