History and Social Theory - Peter Burke

History and Social Theory

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Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2005 | 2nd edition
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-3406-7 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
* A new, fully updated edition of a now classic text. * The text has been completely revised to take into account developments of the past 14 years, since History and Social Theory was first published. * Topics which have been added and that are now treated in depth include globalization, postcolonialism and social capital.
What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in its second edition, Peter Burke reviews afresh the relationship between the fields of history and the social sciences and their tentative convergence in recent decades.



Burke first examines what uses historians have made - or might make - of the models, methods, and concepts of the social sciences, and then analyzes some of the intellectual conflicts, such as the opposition between structure and human agency, which are at the heart of the tension between history and social theory. Throughout, he draws from a broad range of cultures and periods to illustrate how history, in turn, has been used to create and validate social theories. This new edition brings the book up to date with the addition of examples and discussions of new topics such as social capital, globalization and post-colonialism.





The second edition of History and Social Theory will continue to stimulate both students and scholars across a range of disciplines with its challenging assessment of the roles of history and social science today.

Peter Burke is widely-recognized as a world leader in historiography and has been particularly influential in the convergence between history and the social sciences. He is the Professor of Cultural History Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Preface

1 THEORISTS AND HISTORIANS

A Dialogue of the Deaf

The Differentiation of History and Theory

The Dismissal of the Past

The Rise of Social History

The Convergence of Theory and History

2 MODELS AND METHODS

Comparisons

Models

Quantitative Methods

The Social Microscope

3 CENTRAL CONCEPTS

Roles and Performances

Sex and Gender

Family and Kinship

Communities and Identities

Class and Status

Social Mobility and Social Distinction

Consumption and Exchange

Social and Cultural Capital

Patrons and Clients

Power and the Public Sphere

Centres and Peripheries

Hegemony and Resistance

Social Protest and Social Movements

Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses

Communication and Reception

Postcolonialism and Cultural Hybridity

Orality and Textuality

Memory and Myth

4 CENTRAL PROBLEMS

Rationality versus Relativism

Concepts of Culture

Consensus versus Conflict

Facts versus Fictions

Structures versus Agents

Functionalism

The Example of Venice

Structuralism

The Return of the Actor

5 SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Spencer's Model

Marx's Model

A Third Way?

Essays in Synthesis

Patterns of Population

Patterns of Culture

Encounters

The Importance of Events

Generations

6 POSTMODERNITY AND POSTMODERNISM

Destabilization

Cultural Constructions

Decentering

Beyond Eurocentrism?

Globalization

To Conclude

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.7.2005
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 240 mm
Gewicht 482 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-7456-3406-0 / 0745634060
ISBN-13 978-0-7456-3406-7 / 9780745634067
Zustand Neuware
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