Blog: Critical Historical Sociology

Şahan Savaş Karataşlı There is probably no better example of why “it is much easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” than governments’ responses …

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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 …

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 Richard Butsch Comparative/historical sociology has long been concerned with large structural changes, such as the transition from feudalism to capitalism, agricultural to industrial society, colonialization and post-colonial dynamics. While such …

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(Photo: An anti-Vietnam war rally, 1968. Bettmann Archive) Max Elbaum In this piece, I want to discuss the political climate and experience of revolutionaries of the 1960s to better understand …

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(Photo: CNN.com) Timothy M. Gill With the end of the Cold War, the U.S. remains the world’s sole global empire. Under the Trump administration, though, the direction of U.S. Empire …

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(Image: CNN.com) Zophia Edwards There is something uniquely comical about seeing politicians dance at diplomatic engagements. From George Bush to Boris Yeltzin to Hilary Clinton, the list of politicians’ painful-to-watch …

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(Image: Jones 2017) Dylan Riley, Rebecca Jean Emigh, and Patricia Ahmed The 2020 census is likely to be the most politicized national count for decades. The focus of contemporary debate concerns …

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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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