Logics of History Social Theory and Social Transformation

Name: Logics of History Social Theory and Social Transformation
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ISBN: 9780226749181

ISBN-10: 0226749185

ISBN-13: 9780226749181

Edition: 2005

Authors: William H. Sewell Jr.

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'Logics of History' argues that both history & the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. Sewell argues that only by combining a sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge.

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface



Theory, History, and Social Science



The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of A Former Quantitative Historian



Three Temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology



A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation



The Concept(s) of Culture



History, Synchrony, and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Clifford Geertz



A Theory of the Event: Marshall Sahlins's "Possible Theory of History"



Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille



Historical Duration and Temporal Complexity: The Strange Career of Marseille's Dockworkers, 1814-70



Refiguring the "Social" in Social Science: An Interpretivist Manifesto


References