Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields.
Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields.
This innovative book explores what sociologists gain by treating temporality seriously, what we learn from placing social relations and events in historical context. In a series of chapters, readers will see how historical sociologists have addressed the origins of capitalism, revolutions and social movements, empires and states, inequality, gender and culture.
The goal is not to present a comprehensive history of historical sociology; rather, readers will encounter analyses of exemplary works and see how authors engaged past debates and their contemporaries in sociology, history and other disciplines to advance our understanding of how societies are created and remade across time.
This illuminating book is designed for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses as an introduction to historical sociology and as a guide to employing historical analysis across the discipline.
作者简介
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理查德·拉赫曼，美国阿尔巴尼大学文化和历史社会学教授。他著有《国家和权力》（States and Power），《身不由己的资本家》（Capitalists in Spite of Themselves）。其中《身不由己的资本家》一书还获得了2003年美国社会学会“学术出版物奖”。
第一章 开篇 “为了对历史变迁加以阐释，社会学应运而生。”【3】（Sociology was created to explain historical change. p.1.）拉赫曼指出，“社会学之所以在创立之初便具有历史性，与创立者们所提出的问题直接相关。”【3】（Sociology at its beginning was historical bec...
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