Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
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The seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe’s dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The...
Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith
Cambridge University Press
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Long recognized as a foundational figure in the development of social scientific thought, Emile Durkheim’s work has been the subject of intense debate over the years. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays re-examines the impact of Durkheim...
A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and...
Politics, History, and Sociology
A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and...
Stanford University Press
Camic, Charles, and David M. Trubek (eds.)
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Max Weber’s Economy and Society is widely considered the most important single work in sociology and among the most important in the history of the social sciences. This volume provides a critical and up-to-date...
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Elisabeth S. Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff
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A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential...
Sociological Methodology, 34 (1): 1-33
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Despite the lip service which many sociologists pay to Popper’s hypothetico-deductive model (HDM) of theory testing, few if any major social theories have been definitively falsified. The reason is that sociological explanations do not fit the deductivist model of...
California: Sage Publications
Douglas S. Massey
Paperback/Hardcover
July 2001/March 2004
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In 1899 the great African American scholar, W.E.B. DuBois, published The Philadelphia Negro, the first systematic case study of an African American community, in which he prophesied that the “color line” would be “...
Jeffrey Alexander, Ronald Eyerman
University of Califoirnia Press
Bernard Giesen
Neil J. Smelser
Piotr Sztompka
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In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of “cultural trauma”—and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create...
Theory and Society February 2004, Volume 33, Issue 1, pp 31-64
Rogers Brubaker
Mara Loveman
This article identifies an incipient and largely implicit cognitive turn in the study of ethnicity, and argues that it can be consolidated and extended by drawing on cognitive research in social psychology and anthropology. Cognitive perspectives provide...
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 595 September: 14-31.
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Preface
The initial ethnography conference that would lead to a series of conferences (which have now become something of a tradition), emphasizing the close mentoring of younger ethnographers by veteran ethnographers, was organized at the University of California, Los...
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As students of culture, ethnographers must have curiosity, openness, and humility - three traits vital for “getting with”people. But how do ethnographers go about developing relationships with people in the field? And how do they learn from these people so they can...
Oxford University Press
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In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet...
University of Chicago Press
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What explains the rapid growth of state power in early modern Europe? While most scholars have pointed to the impact of military or capitalist revolutions, Philip S. Gorski argues instead for the importance of a disciplinary revolution unleashed by the Reformation. By...
(2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press
1978, 1981
288 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2003
Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
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This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah Anderson’s sociological classic, a study of street corner life at a local barroom/liquor store...
