Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology(Politics, History, and Culture)

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity highlights the resurgence in historical inquiry underway right now, assesses the field's past accomplishments, and peers into the future, delineating changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and cultural change. Where many discussions of the field have focused on questions of method, these essays illuminate the substantive and theoretical challenges presented by modernity, by social change writ large. This volume captures an exciting new conversation among historical sociologists that brings a wider interdisciplinary project to bear on the problems and prospects of modernity. The contributors represent a wide range of theoretical orientations and a broad spectrum of understandings of what constitutes historical sociology. They address such topics as religion, war, citizenship, markets, professions, gender and welfare, colonialism, ethnicity and groups, bureaucracy, revolutions, collective action, and the modernist social sciences themselves. Remaking Modernity includes a significant introduction in which the editors consider prior orientations in historic sociology in order to highlight more recent developments. They point out how current research is building on and challenging previous work through attention to institutionalism, rational-choice, the cultural turn, feminist theories and approaches, and colonialism and the racial formations of empire. Contributors: Julia Adams; Justin Baer; Richard Biernacki; Bruce Carruthers; Elisabeth Clemens; Rebecca Jean Emigh ;Philip Gorski; Roger Gould; Meyer Kestmbaum; Edgar Kiser; Ming-Cheng Lo; Zine Magubane; Ann Shola Orloff; Nader Sohrabi; George Steinmetz. Julia Adams is Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Elisabeth Clemens is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of the Interest Group. Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Women's Employment and Welfare Regimes: Globalization, Export Orientation, and Social Policy in Europe and North America.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Social Theory, Modernity and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology / Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff 1 Part I: Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct / Richard Biernacki 75 Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology's Global Imagination / Zine Magubene 92 The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology / George Steinmetz 109 Part II: State Formation and Historical Sociology The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology / Philip S. Gorski 161 Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity / Ann Shola Orloff 190 The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism / Edgar Kiser and Justin Baer 225 Part III: History and Political Contention Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among the States / Meyer Kestnbaum 249 Historical Sociology and Collective Action / Roger V. Gould 286 Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity / Nader Sohrabi 300 Part IV: Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context / Bruce G. Carruthers 333 The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms / Rebecca Jean Emigh 355 The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity / Ming-Cheng M. Lo 381 Part V: Politics, History, and Collective Identities Nations / Lyn Spillman and Russell Faeges 409 Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social / Margaret R. Somers 438 Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubake 470 Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change / Elisabeth S. Clemens 493 References 517 Contributors 599 Index 603

About the Author :
Julia Adams is Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Elisabeth Clemens is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of the Interest Group. Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Women's Employment and Welfare Regimes: Globalization, Export Orientation, and Social Policy in Europe and North America.

Review :
"Remaking Modernity is the best representation available of the large and excellent generation of American historical sociologists now becoming prominent in the discipline."--Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council "Here, all in one volume, is the best of the rising generation of historical sociologists, applying their craft to themselves, reflecting on their antecedents in order to chart our discipline's futures. Ranging across multiple fields, wrestling with the Marxist-inspired iconoclasm of second-wave historical sociology, this is sure to become a definitive text of the third wave."--Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley " ... an excellent overview of the state of the art within US historical sociology."--International Review of SOcial History, Vol 52, 2007, Part 1