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Polarized Futures and the 2020 Election

April 15, 2021April 16, 2021 - by Stephanie L. Mudge - Leave a Comment

Stephanie L. Mudge, UC Davis If we are willing to set aside the truly horrifying circumstances surrounding the 2020 election from beginning to end—a big ask—and focus on certain selected …

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Analytic Architectures, Pluralism, and Coherence in Historical Sociology

October 1, 2020April 15, 2021 - by Damon Mayrl & Nicholas Hoover Wilson - Leave a Comment

Damon Mayrl, Colby College Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stony Brook University What do historical sociologists do all day? The answer to this question is surprisingly hard to come by. One reason …

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Black Lives Matter, CHS, and the Current Moment

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 - by Anthony Chen - Leave a Comment

Anthony S. Chen, Northwestern University For many Black people in the United States, George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer on a Monday evening in late May must have …

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Introducing the ASA-CHS Teaching Initiative

September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 - by Damon Mayrl & Robert Braun - Leave a Comment

Damon Mayrl, Colby College Robert Braun, University of California, Berkeley As graduate students, comparative-historical sociologists are trained in how to conceive, design, and carry out historical research in a wide …

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A Pragmatist Approach to Comparison and Causality in Historical Sociology

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 - by Isaac A. Reed & Pauk Lichterman

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

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 - by Anna Skarpelis

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

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 - by Armando Lara-Millán, Brian Sargent & Sunmin Kim

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

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 - by Laura García-Montoya and James Mahoney

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

June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 - by Emily Erikson

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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The Uses and Abuses of a Concept: Human Rights in Latin America

November 12, 2017 - by chswebsite

Gabriel Hetland University at Albany, State University of New York The idea that human rights should, indeed must, be defended appears unobjectionable and beyond question. During the 1970s and 1980s …

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