Beyond Dogmatism : : Studies in Historical Sociology /

Beyond Dogmatism : : Studies in Historical Sociology / / Andrea Borghini.

"In Beyond Dogmatism. Studies in Historical Sociology Andrea Borghini offers a general overwiew of the perspective of Historical Sociology through distinguished authors working in this field. Each of the contributing chapters traverses the history of sociological thought in a rich and innovativ...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; Volume 261
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Borghini, Andrea, 1977-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 261.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 260 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface: The Many Worlds of Historical Sociology
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Debate between Sociology and History
  • 1.1 First Puzzle: the Unconscious Methodological Nationalism of Historical Sociology (Provincializing America?)
  • 1.2 Second Puzzle: Institutionalization as Legitimation
  • 1.3 Third Puzzle: Criticism as the Only Direction of the Discipline
  • 1.4 Fourth Puzzle: In Search of a Definition
  • 2 This Book
  • 3 Open Matters
  • References
  • Chapter 1 Elements for an Emancipatory Historical Sociology: Revisiting Lukács via Mészáros
  • 1 The Legacy of György Lukács
  • 2 Hegelian Marxism vs Neo-Kantian Sociology
  • 3 Reconciling Lukács with Objective History via Mészáros
  • 4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2 Antonio Gramsci's Contribution to a Critical and Historical Sociology
  • 1 Theoretical Premises
  • 2 Sociology Rejected
  • 3 The Marxism of Gramsci
  • 4 Towards an Interpretation of Social Change
  • 5 Interpreting the Social Reality: Analysis and Processes
  • 6 Final Considerations
  • References
  • Chapter 3 The Historical Sociology of Long-Term Social Change: Notes on the Contribution of Christopher Chase-Dunn to World-System Analysis
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The World-System Analysis: Genesis and Original Features
  • 3 World-System Analysis and Long-Term Social Change: Chase-Dunn's Approach
  • 4 On Chase-Dunn's Theorizing about Large-Scale Social Change
  • 5 Some Final Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 4 The Great Oscillation: Historicism, Polanyi's Double Movement, and Embedded Dynamics of Capitalism
  • 1 Double Movement and It's Popularity
  • 2 Embedded Liberalism
  • 3 Neoliberalism
  • 4 Postneoliberal Possibilities and Failures
  • 4.1 Postneoliberal Possibilities?.
  • 4.2 State Legitimation in Late Capitalism
  • References
  • Chapter 5 Depth in the Inexhaustible Surface of Things: Postmodernism and the Fetishism of Commodities
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Work vs Consumption, Desire vs Need
  • 3 Postmodernism: between an "Eclipse of Distance" and Pastiche
  • 4 Things "Appear as What They Are"
  • 5 Depth Is Hidden on the Surface
  • References
  • Chapter 6 Method, History, and Society: The Main Road by Werner Sombart
  • 1 History and Sociology: a Long Story
  • 2 On the Traces of Werner Sombart
  • 3 Werner Sombart and Historical Sociology
  • 3.1 Historical - Geneticist Classification
  • 3.2 The Relationship between Theory and History Through an Interdisciplinary Path
  • 4 No Theory, no History
  • 5 (Historical) Sociology as Science of Critical Soul
  • References
  • Chapter 7 Bourdieu and Elias, Historical Sociologists: Notes for a Comparison
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The Meaning of a Comparison
  • 2 Part One. Historical Sociology as a Vocation: Bourdieu and Elias
  • 2.1 Pierre Bourdieu
  • 2.1.1 Bourdieu and the Debate in Historical Sociology
  • 2.2 Norbert Elias
  • 2.2.1 Elias and the Debate in Historical Sociology
  • 3 Part Two. A Critical Comparison in the Light of the Notion of State
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 8 On Habitus, Historical Processes and Art Experience: Some Remarks on Pierre Bourdieu's Early Reflections on the Genealogy of the Judgment of Taste
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A Look at the Origin and Spread of the Concept of Habitus
  • 3 Habitus and History in Bourdieu's Sociological Theory
  • 4 The Genealogy of the Concept of Class Habitus and Its Connection with Art Production and Fruition
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9 Michael Mann's History of Social Power
  • 1 Michael Mann's Organizational Conception of Power
  • 2 The Four Sources of Social Power
  • 3 A History of Social Power.
  • References
  • Chapter 10 The Sociology of Concepts or the Sociology of Judgments?: Schmitt, Benjamin, Weber
  • 1 Political Judgments and the Sociology of Concepts
  • 2 Benjamin's Sociology of Concepts, or the Intention "to Interrupt the Course of the World"
  • 3 A Different Stance in the Face of Despair
  • 4 Weber as a Sociological Model for Developing Political Judgments
  • 5 Anything in Common? Coda
  • References
  • Chapter 11 In Search of Dialogue with History: A Political Science Research Perspective
  • 1 A Derivation from History
  • 2 The Ahistorical Waves and Their Exceptions
  • 3 A Renewed Dialogue
  • 3.1 New Institutionalism
  • 3.2 Historical Institutionalism
  • 3.3 Other Paths to Dialogue
  • 4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index
  • Back Cover.

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