Comparative and Historical Sociology
Section of the American Sociological Association
History, Theory and Sociology in an Age of Crisis
The third wave disposes of the first wave – (Image: “Twin Peaks: the Return, Part Three” ) George Steinmetz The very idea of an ASA section dedicated to “Comparative and …
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(Photo: Mill Children, South Carolina by Lewis Hine available at the Met Museum) Tad Skotnicki “The wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails,” Marx writes, “appears …
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Manali Desai The call for a ‘post-colonial’ turn in sociology in recent years has pointed to the neglect of colonial and imperialist histories that have constituted the modern world, and …
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(Image: Angelus Novus (1920) by Paul Klee) Timothy Rutzou “The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are still possible… is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning …
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(Photo : Mark Rolston) Ho-fung Hung Thanks to globalization, sociology has been transgressing the singular nation-state focus and paying more attention to global processes that encompass the whole world and …
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Michael D. Kennedy, Prabhdeep S. Kehal and Laura Garbes For Marxists, as for sociologists, reflexive efforts at historical self-understanding are often taken as narcissistic, diverting enquiry from its proper objective …
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George Steinmetz — Chair, Section in Comparative and Historical Sociology of the American Sociological Association The Need for Historical Sociologists Sociology is inherently interpretive and inescapably historical. Cultural and historical …
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Editors (Sahan S. Karatasli, Simeon J. Newman & Timothy Rutzou) The “Critical Historical Sociology Blog: History, Theory and Sociology in an Age of Crisis” is the official blog of the …
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