Description: What is Historical Sociology?Author(s): Richard Lachmann Format: Paperback Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Polity Press ISBN-13: 9780745660097, 978-0745660097 Synopsis Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields. This innovative book explores what sociologists gain by treating temporality seriously, what we learn from placing social relations and events in historical context. In a series of chapters, readers will see how historical sociologists have addressed the origins of capitalism, revolutions and social movements, empires and states, inequality, gender and culture. The goal is not to present a comprehensive history of historical sociology; rather, readers will encounter analyses of exemplary works and see how authors engaged past debates and their contemporaries in sociology, history and other disciplines to advance our understanding of how societies are created and remade across time. This illuminating book is designed for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses as an introduction to historical sociology and as a guide to employing historical analysis across the discipline.
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Book Title: What is Historical Sociology?
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Historical Sociology?
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Sociology, History
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 222 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Richard Lachmann
Series: What Is Sociology?
Item Width: 142 mm
Format: Paperback
