Historical approaches
How does collective mobilization take shape? We focus on this question to examine how sociologists deal with issues of temporality, sequence, archival data and explanation of social change.
Background readings
Aminzade, 1992, SMR, “Historical sociology and time”
Ermakoff, 2019, ARS, "Causality and History. Modes of causal investigation in historical social sciences"
Optional readings
Abbott, 1988, ST, "Transcending general linear reality"
Abell, 2009, SMR, "A Case for Cases: Comparative narratives in sociological explanation"
Griffin, 1993, AJS, "Narrative, event structure analysis, and causal interpretation in historical sociology"
Case-studies for reading and commentary
Makovi & al., 2016, SS, “The Course of Law: State Intervention in Southern Lynch Mob Violence 1882-1930”
Case-studies for written reviews
Abbott, Andrew, and Alexandra Hrycak. 1990. “Measuring Resemblance in Sequence Data: An Optimal Matching Analysis of Musicians’ Careers.” American Journal of Sociology 96(1):144–85.
Accominotti, Fabien. 2009. “Creativity from Interaction: Artistic Movements and the Creativity Careers of Modern Painters.” Poetics 37(3):267–94. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.03.005.
Bearman, Peter S., and Hannah Brückner. 2001. “Promising the Future: Virginity Pledges and First Intercourse.” American Journal of Sociology 106(4):859–912. doi: 10.1086/320295.
Bearman, Peter S., and Katherine Stovel. 2000. “Becoming a Nazi: A Model for Narrative Networks.” Poetics 27(2–3):69–90. doi: 10.1016/S0304-422X(99)00022-4.
Beck, E. M., and Stewart E. Tolnay. 1990. “The Killing Fields of the Deep South: The Market for Cotton and the Lynching of Blacks, 1882-1930.” American Sociological Review 55(4):526–39. doi: 10.2307/2095805.
Byker, Tanya. 2016. “The Opt-Out Continuation: Education, Work, and Motherhood from 1984 to 2012.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2(4):34–70. doi: 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.02.
DeSoucey, Michaela. 2010. “Gastronationalism: Food Traditions and Authenticity Politics in the European Union.” American Sociological Review 75(3):432–55. doi: 10.1177/0003122410372226.
Ermakoff, Ivan. 2015. “The Structure of Contingency.” American Journal of Sociology 121(1):64–125. doi: 10.1086/682026.
Fourcade‐Gourinchas, Marion, and Sarah L. Babb. 2002. “The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 108(3):533–79. doi: 10.1086/367922.
Franzosi, Roberto, Gianluca De Fazio, and Stefania Vicari. 2012. “Ways of Measuring Agency: An Application of Quantitative Narrative Analysis to Lynchings in Georgia (1875—1930).” Sociological Methodology 4:1–42.
Gillis, A. R. 1996. “So Long as They Both Shall Live: Marital Dissolution and the Decline of Domestic Homicide in France, 1852-1909.” American Journal of Sociology 101(5):1273–1305.
Hagen, R., K. Makovi, and P. Bearman. 2013. “The Influence of Political Dynamics on Southern Lynch Mob Formation and Lethality.” Social Forces 92(2):757–87. doi: 10.1093/sf/sot093.
Jacobs, Lindsay Marie, and Ronan Van Rossem. 2016. “The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005.” Journal of World-Systems Research 22(2):373–403. doi: 10.5195/jwsr.2016.624.
Kroneberg, Clemens, and Andreas Wimmer. 2012. “Struggling over the Boundaries of Belonging: A Formal Model of Nation Building, Ethnic Closure, and Populism.” American Journal of Sociology 118(1):176–230. doi: 10.1086/666671.
Lange, Matthew, James Mahoney, and Matthias Vom Hau. 2006. “Colonialism and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and British Colonies.” American Journal of Sociology 111(5):1412–62. doi: 10.1086/499510.
Lesnard, Laurent. 2008. “Off‐Scheduling within Dual‐Earner Couples: An Unequal and Negative Externality for Family Time.” American Journal of Sociology 114(2):447–90. doi: 10.1086/590648.
MacKenzie, Donald. 2011. “The Credit Crisis as a Problem in the Sociology of Knowledge.” American Journal of Sociology 116(6):1778–1841. doi: 10.1086/659639.
Schifeling, Todd. 2013. “Defense against Recession: U.S. Business Mobilization, 1950–1970.” American Journal of Sociology 119(1):1–34. doi: 10.1086/673128.
Stark, David, and Balázs Vedres. 2006. “Social Times of Network Spaces: Network Sequences and Foreign Investment in Hungary.” American Journal of Sociology 111(5):1367–1411. doi: 10.1086/499507.
Strang, David. 1990. “From Dependency to Sovereignty: An Event History Analysis of Decolonization 1870-1987.” American Sociological Review 55(6):846. doi: 10.2307/2095750.
Tanya Byker. 2016. “The Opt-Out Continuation: Education, Work, and Motherhood from 1984 to 2012.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 2(4):34. doi: 10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.02.
Uzzi, Brian, and Jarrett Spiro. 2005. “Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem.” American Journal of Sociology 111(2):447–504. doi: 10.1086/432782.
Vaisey, Stephen, and Omar Lizardo. 2016. “Cultural Fragmentation or Acquired Dispositions? A New Approach to Accounting for Patterns of Cultural Change.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 2:2378023116669726. doi: 10.1177/2378023116669726.
Wimmer, Andreas. 2015. “Nation Building. A Long-Term Perspective and Global Analysis.” European Sociological Review 31(1):30–47. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcu078.