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William H. Sewell Jr.

Logics of History

Social Theory and Social Transformation

376 pages, 3 halftones, 1 figure, 2 tables  6 x 9  © 2005
Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9780226749174   Published August 2005

Paper $31.00

ISBN: 9780226749181   Published August 2005

Preface
1. Theory, History, and Social Science
2. The Political Unconscious of Social and Cultural History, or, Confessions of a Former Quantitative Historian
3. Three Temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology
4. A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation
5. The Concept(s) of Culture
6. History, Synchrony, and Culture: Reflections on the Work of Clifford Geertz
7. A Theory of the Event: Marshall Sahlins's "Possible Theory of History"
8. Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille  
9. Historical Duration and Temporal Complexity: The Strange Career of Marseille's Dockworkers, 1814-70
10. Refiguring the "Social" in Social Science: An Interpretivist Manifesto
References
Index
Subjects



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