Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology

Politics, History, and Culture

by Julia Adams (Editor), Elisabeth Clemens (Editor)

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and cultural change. The 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 variety 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, bureaucracy, revolutions, collective action, and the modernist social sciences themselves. Remaking Modernity includes a significant introduction in which the editors consider prior orientations in historical sociology in order to analyze the field’s resurgence. They show 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
Russell Faeges
Philip Gorski
Roger Gould
Meyer Kestnbaum
Edgar Kiser
Ming-Cheng Lo
Zine Magubane
Ann Shola Orloff
Nader Sohrabi
Margaret Somers
Lyn Spillman
George Steinmetz

Genres: Nonfiction

632 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Waris Ahmad Faizi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful!

This book is a critical and scholarly work that dives deep into the intricate ways in which modern institutions and social practices are formed and reformed. Adams offers a multifaceted analysis that integrates theories from politics, history, and sociology to address how modernity is continuously shaped and reshaped. Her approach is thorough and thought-provoking, providing readers with a broad understanding of the forces that influence modern societal structures. This book is particularly valuable for scholars and students interested in sociological theory, historical transformations, and political dynamics. Adams' work stands out for its intellectual rigor and its contribution to contemporary debates in the social sciences.