While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians.
Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
William H. Sewell Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three previous books, including Work and Revolution in France and A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution.
William Sewell traces the rise of positivism and quantification in social history of American academia. Social historians asked new questions about new categories of people with new forms of evidence. Thus a gold mine of documentation arose, including recor...
评分May be summarized as follows: culture, I have argued, should be understood as a dialectic of system and practice, as a dimension of social life autonomous from other such dimensions both in its logic and in its spatial configuration, and as possessing a rea...
评分除了吐槽之外,我还是再写点正经的吧。 ff老师说这本书对于她的启发在于,要去寻找历史事件发生背后的结构。刚才看到笔记人老师说,这本书对于他的意义主要在于,历史学家能从人类学家那里学到什么。但对我来说,这本书的价值在于给那些通过不同的途径生产出来的知识找一个各...
评分看到mujun这么评论这本书:Sewell对于文化、社会、事件、结构等概念的理解一脉相承。弄明白一个基本也就搞清楚他的思路了。他并不是要给这些概念再提出一套自己的理论,只是要为那些想把“文化”和“社会史”写到一起去,想把“结构”和“行动”写到一起去的人提供一套切实可行...
评分May be summarized as follows: culture, I have argued, should be understood as a dialectic of system and practice, as a dimension of social life autonomous from other such dimensions both in its logic and in its spatial configuration, and as possessing a rea...
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评分方法论。历史学家能从社会学家和人类学家那里学到什么?social/cultural history又是什么?
评分比一般的人类学教材受用多了,内容和用词也比较平易近人,
评分历史社会学:结构的崩溃与转型。结构与能动性相互构成,结构的缝隙带来市民社会能动性的可能,集体的能动性则带来结构的变革。
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