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Free Download Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) by William H. Sewell Jr.
English | August 1, 2005 | ISBN: 0226749177, 0226749185 | True PDF | 376 425 pages | 23.9 MB
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists' treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians.