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Rachel Thomson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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generational research between historical and sociological imaginations
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2014Co-Authors: Rachel ThomsonAbstract:This paper reflects on Julia Brannen’s contribution to the development of theory and methods for intergenerational research. The discussion is contextualised within a contemporary ‘turn to time’ within sociology, involving tensions and synergies between sociological and historical imagination. These questions are informed by a juxtaposition of Brannen’s four-generation study of family change and Social Historian Angela Davis’s exploration women and the family in England between 1945 and 2000. These two studies give rise to complementary findings, yet have distinctive orientations towards the status and treatment of sources, the role of geography in research design and limits of generalisation
Nicolas Henckes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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clinical knowledge health policies and Social identities commentary on lara rzesnitzek 2013 early psychosis as a mirror of biologist controversies in post war german anglo saxon and soviet psychiatry
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014Co-Authors: Nicolas HenckesAbstract:In her wide ranging and thoughtful article Rzesnitzek (2013), recalls the long, conflicting and at times convoluted history of attempts to describe and delineate the beginnings of schizophrenia. As Rzesnitzek shows us, this history is at once scientific, clinical, and political. It involved practitioners from all over the Western world as well as from what used to be called the Eastern world. The reader is struck by the range of the debates, the number of conflicting positions as well as the size of the research effort involved in these debates. In a way, the debates over the beginnings of schizophrenia were merely an abridged version of those over the nature of the disorder itself. In fact, while Rzesnitzek herself does not clearly make this point, her article demonstrates quite convincingly that the debates over the beginnings of schizophrenia were debates over the very definition of the disorder. What was seen as the manifestation of an early form of schizophrenia or what was rather understood as a predisposing condition clearly reflected divergent visions of the nature and symptoms of the disorder. As a sociologist and Social Historian, I would add that these visions should in turn be associated with the settings and practical conditions in which psychiatrists saw patients.
W. B. Patterson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Historian
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018Co-Authors: W. B. PattersonAbstract:Fuller’s History of the Worthies of England (1662), the first biographical dictionary in England, was published after his death. Fuller relied heavily on books and documents, but he also traveled widely, interviewing the most knowledgeable persons he could find and gaining knowledge first-hand of his country’s commodities, enterprises, buildings, and natural features. The work is organized on a county-by-county basis, and the notable individuals are listed in chronological, rather than alphabetical order. The result is a treatment of notable persons across many centuries in the context of the Social, economic, political, and cultural contexts in which they lived. Fuller saw England as distinguished in many ways by industriousness and ingenuity as well as by a concern for the common good. The Worthies is one of the most original historical works in early modern England and is unexcelled as an analysis of the society that Fuller and his contemporaries knew.
Mark Edele - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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soviet society Social structure and everyday life major frameworks reconsidered
Kritika, 2007Co-Authors: Mark EdeleAbstract:This is a good time to be a Social Historian. The linguistic turn has thoroughly discredited any attempt to see politics and culture as mere surface phenomena of deeper Social transformations and thus freed Social history from unnecessary reductionism. As a result of the sometimes harsh postmodern critique, Historians are keenly aware of the complexities of the historical phenomena they deal with and the epistemological problems of their craft. It is time to move beyond these criticisms and reconstruct the project of writing a history of society. (1) Such a reconstruction of Social history would see the linguistic turn as a constructive critique of older approaches, rather than as an all-encompassing paradigm shift. (2) One major effect of the critique of Social history on our own field is a reluctance to theorize Social structure and Social stratification in the Soviet context. (3) By the mid- 990s, even labor Historians felt compelled to theorize "class" as an "imagined community" rather than as an objective structure of differentiated access to life chances. (4) Where class is encountered, it is deconstructed as a category of state engineering. (5) It is as if the critique of vulgar Marxist class analysis (with all its assumptions about base and superstructure, historical progress, and consciousness) has de-legitimized the study of stratification per se. (6) It may be time to remember that the major classical theorist of Social hierarchy was not Karl Marx, but Max Weber. (7) A second major effect is that the study of "society" was replaced with the study of "everyday life." (8) In what amounts to a Social history with the structure left out, Historians focus on everyday practices rather than on large-scale structures such as classes or society at large, as the "old" Social history had done. The one over-arching structure left in such analyses is the state. Not only in the cities, but even in the under-governed countryside, Sheila Fitzpatrick, for example, focuses on interactions with the state as the essence of the Soviet everyday. (9) Similarly, for Stephen Kotkin the "grand strategies of the state" define the field of action in which the "little tactics of the habitat" play out. (10) It is as if the everyday has replaced "society" in the old dichotomy of state vs. society which informed much of Social history in the Soviet context. Again, it might be time to remember one of the major propositions of classical sociology: that the state is only one element of the larger Social organization that forms the context for everyday life and is in turn reproduced by it. (11) The goal of this article is to recover some of these insights of classical sociology in order to reconstruct a theoretical framework for a history of Soviet society. Rather than develop one coherent theoretical model, this article explores the general conceptual frames that lie at the base of several attempts to think about society and everyday life in the Soviet context. I start with the too often neglected Harvard Interview Project, which is most directly influenced by classical sociology. I contend that a re-appropriation of the general outlook of this approach is an essential step in a reconstruction of a history of Soviet society. I then contrast the Harvard Project's conceptual approach with several major alternatives: the political economy of state Socialism, Social history in a state/society framework, and the history of everyday life a la Kotkin. Rather than replacing the conceptual work of Alex Inkeles, Raymond Bauer, and Clyde Kluckhohn, I argue that these approaches add specific complications to the original framework. Rather than stressing shifts between generations of researchers, this article thus assumes that different approaches have developed different aspects of a larger whole. Instead of stressing the differences between successive paradigms, I suggest we think of the historiographical development as the unfolding of a larger research agenda: the attempt to understand the socio-cultural complexity of Soviet society. …
Salvador Santino F. Regilme - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Discipline, Democracy, and Modernity: Are They All Uniquely ‘European’?
2012Co-Authors: Salvador Santino F. RegilmeAbstract:Historically, narratives about the grandiosity of absolute monarchy and Social discipline dominated the research agenda on European absolutism, as in the case of the renowned works of Norbert Elias. Yet, less emphasis was made about the various levels of powers existing outside the central monarchy and the importance of other institutions in laying the foundations of European modernity. It is in this spirit that it is worth examining the work of the German Social Historian Gerhard Oestreich and his historically rich notion of ‘Social discipline’, as he gave light to the various differentiated levels of authority that demystified the powers of the absolutist state. As Oestreich argues that the establishment of Social discipline was one of the most notable achievements of the absolutist state in as much as it is crucial in establishing a vibrant democracy, the paper examines the conceptual- and praxis-oriented links between and amongst the notions of Social discipline, modernity, and democracy. Particularly, I locate this notion of ‘Social discipline’ within the grand (meta)-narratives of Euro-centric modernity and how such dominating discourse has to be re-thought and re-drawn amidst emerging disquisitions about the various ‘stories’ of modernity (ies) in the non-Western world in which (Euro) Western-centric scholarship endeavors have dismally and unfortunately ignored. Furthermore, discussions of ‘modernity’, ‘democracy’ and ‘development’ have to be discursively situated within the broader realm of delicate cultural, Social, historical and political nuances and subtleties of the context-in-question (e.g. state, nation or a political community) as opposed to totalizing and universalizing tendencies that European scholarship has been consistently characteristic of such.