Blog: Critical Historical Sociology

 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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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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