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Author:

Sewell, William Hamilton, 1940-

Title:

Logics of history : social theory and social transformation / William H. Sewell Jr.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xi, 412 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social sciences and history.
History--Philosophy.
Whitman College--Class of 1966.--Class of 1966.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-396) and index.

Contents:

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

Series:

Chicago studies in practices of meaning.

ISBN:

9780226749181 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226749185 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226749174 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226749177 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56793679

LCCN:

2004024683

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)