JOB OPENING: BOSTON COLLEGE
The Department of Sociology at Boston College invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position to begin in Fall 2020. A successful candidate is one whose research and teaching are relevant …
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NEW BOOKS: Holocaust and Human Rights Education
Holocaust and Human Rights Education: Good Choices and Sociological Perspectives. By Michael Polgar , Penn State University, USA Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited. ISBN: 9781787544994 https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Holocaust-and-Human-Rights-Education/?k=9781787544994 This book explores the way in which …
Read MoreGift Membership Drive
31 July is the deadline. There are literally three days left so go for it! Please enroll as many of your students as your budget can afford! ASA members can …
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A Pragmatist Approach to Comparison and Causality in Historical Sociology
Isaac A. Reed & Paul Lichterman Let’s say you are advising, or writing, a three-case study dissertation. You want the dissertation to be welcome scholarly news. That usually means it …
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Life on File: Archival Epistemology as Theory
Anna Skarpelis History is produced from what the archive offers – Marisa J. Fuentes If history is indeed produced from what the archive offers, sociologists need to better understand the …
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Where is the Archive in Historical Sociology? The Case for Ethnographic Dispositions
Armando Lara-Millán, Brian Sargent & Sunmin Kim In this paper, we offer guidelines on how historical sociologists should engage with archives. Rather than focusing on the epistemological value of archival …
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The Logic of Critical Event Analysis
Laura García-Montoya and James Mahoney Historical and case study analysts have long focused attention on critical events—sometimes referred to as watersheds, turning points, or critical junctures—when explaining outcomes of interest. …
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Discussion
Emily Erikson We have four outstanding papers here, two tackling archival issues and two tackling causal issues. Anna Skarpelis and Armando Lara-Millan, Brian Sargent, and Sunmin Kim are all advocating …
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2019 Section Award Winners
2019 Barrington Moore Book Award (Committee Yingyao Wang (chair), Angel Parham, Sahan Savaş Karataşlı) Co-winners: Andreas Wimmer. 2018. Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart, Princeton …
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New Books by CHS Members
Schwartz, Mildred and Raymond Tatalovich. 2019. The Rise and Fall of Moral Conflicts in Canada and the United States. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/us/the-rise-and-fall-of-moral-conflicts-in-the-united-states-and-canada-2 Fishman, Robert M. 2019. Democratic …
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