History and Social Theory

Name: History and Social Theory
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ISBN: 9780801472855

ISBN-10: 0801472857

ISBN-13: 9780801472855

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Burke

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Book details

List price: $32.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface



Theorists and Historians


A Dialogue of the Deaf the Differentiation of History and Theory the Dismissal of the Past the Rise of Social History the Convergence of Theory and History



Models and Methods


Comparisons Models Quantitative Methods the Social Microscope



Central Concepts


Roles and Performances Sex and Gender Family and Kinship Communities and Identities Class and Status Social


Mobility and Social Distinction Consumption and Exchange Social and Cultural


Capital Patrons and Clients Power and the Public Sphere Centres and Peripheries Hegemony and Resistance Social


Protest and Social Movements Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses Communication and Reception


Postcolonialism and Cultural Hybridity Orality and Textuality Memory and Myth



Central Problems


Rationality versus Relativism Concepts of Culture Consensus versus Conflict


Facts versus Fictions Structures versus Agents


Functionalism the Example of Venice Structuralism the Return of the Actor



Social Theory and Social Change


Spencer's Model Marx's Model A Third Way


Essays in Synthesis Patterns of Population


Patterns of Culture Encounters the Importance of Events Generations



Postmodernity and Postmodernism


Destabilization Cultural Constructions Decentering Beyond Eurocentrism


Globalization to Conclude


Bibliography


Index