Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

Some of the most important questions of the social sciences in the twentieth century have been posed by scholars working at the intersections of social theory and history viewed on a grand scale. The core essays of this book focus on the careers and contributions of nine of these scholars: Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington Moore, Jr. The essays convey a vivid sense of the vision and values each of these major scholars brings (or bought) to his work and analyze and evaluate the research designs and methods each used in his most important works. The introduction and conclusion discuss the long-running tradition of historically grounded research in sociology, while the conclusion also provides a detailed discussion and comparison of three recurrent strategies for bringing historical evidence and theoretical ideas to bear upon one another. informative, thought-provoking, and unusually practical, the book offers fascinating and relevant reading to sociologists, social historians, historically oriented political economists, and anthropologists - and, indeed, to anyone who wants to learn more about the ideas and methods of some of the best-known scholars in the modern social sciences.

• Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
• The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
• Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis Of The Writings Of Marx, Durkheim And Max Weber
• Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology (Politics, History, and Culture)
• Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology Today (Rethinking Classical Sociology)
• Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
• Historical Sociology
• No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
• Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
• The Sources of Social Power