Comparative and Historical Sociology
Section of the American Sociological Association
Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. The Age of Sail has …
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You can access the latest issue of our newsletter Trajectories (Fall 2019-Winter 2020) here.
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Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere. 2020. Edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Trevor Stack and Farhad Khosrokhavar. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108427234 (hardback) It is not only …
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Richard Lachmann, First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers (Verso, 2020) The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious …
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Shai M. Dromi, Lecturer on Sociology, Harvard University University of Chicago Press, 2020 Policymakers and activists often assume that humanitarian aid is best provided by NGOs, which are generally seen …
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This special issue celebrates the legacy of Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death and his contributions to comparative and historical sociology. Volume authors include John Bodel, Fiona Greenland, Renisa Mawani, Michael …
Read MoreJeffrey Alexander and ISA Research Committee on Sociological Theory (RC16) mid-term conference organizer Csaba Szalo and co-President Brad West, along with other international scholars interested in global issues and the …
Read MoreCo-organizers: André Vereta-Nahoum (Sociology, University of São Paulo) Simone Polillo (Sociology, University of Virginia) Call for papers The idea of crisis may be as old as modernity (Koselleck, 2015), but, …
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(Photo: Lucas Jackson / Reuters) The two candidates take opposing positions in a debate as old as the New Deal. Josh Pacewicz In this election cycle, left-of-center Democrats are faced …
Read MoreThe Comparative Historical Social Sciences Working Group at Northwestern University is calling graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to participate in our third annual conference this year entitled, “The Neoliberal State …
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