Full Description
This insightful Research Handbook provides an in-depth survey of global historical sociology. Expert contributors explore this rich, interdisciplinary field, which sits at the crossroads between history, sociology, and other social sciences including economics, demography, geography, and political science.
In an engaging and accessible style, expert scholars and practitioners discuss past and state-of-the-art research, exploring theory, research design, data, empirical results, and ways forward in their field. Key themes include social inequality, social solidarity, institutions, family, and demography. In particular, chapters highlight how both the spatial and temporal aspects of historical sociology are integral to understanding societies. While quantitative datasets are growing bigger and more encompassing, the contributing authors emphasize the continued need for theoretical approaches to bridge the gaps between quantitative and qualitative methods.
The Research Handbook on Historical Sociology is an essential resource for students and academics in sociology, history, and economics, as well as researchers and practitioners across the social sciences looking to understand social change over time.
Contents
Contents
1 Historical sociology as global social science history 1
Marco H. D. van Leeuwen
2 Institutions in economic history and the new economic sociology: bridging
the gap 44
Anne McCants
3 Persistence of the past in organizations 63
Sofie Wiersma and Zoltán Lippényi
4 Sociological political economy of race, ethnicity, and religion 78
Kerice Doten-Snitker
5 Mutualism and social welfare 93
Bernard Harris
6 A bird's eye view on the longitudinal development of "old" and "new"
commons. Institutions for collective action in historical perspective 121
Tine De Moor
7 Inequality 154
Guido Alfani
8 (Wealth) elites 178
Eva Maria Gajek
9 Occupational mobility between the generations and over the life course 193
Ineke Maas & Marco H. D. van Leeuwen
10 Migration and immigrant outcomes at the destination 220
Santiago Pérez
11 Skill change 238
Rowena Gray
12 Social homogamy: past and present 261
Marco H. D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas
13 Female labor force participation 290
Maria Stanfors
14 Social networks in historical political sociology 331
Jonathan Schoots
15 Kinship and inequalities in historical sociology 358
Saverio Minardi, Giulia Corti and Nicola Barban
16 Colonial family demography: setting the stage 387
Jan Kok
17 New African health histories: (e)merging lines 421
Hilde Bras
18 Family systems in comparative perspective: a concise review, with an
emphasis on historical East Asia 449
Hao Dong
19 Slavery and emancipation 470
Martin Ruef
20 Spatiality in historical sociology 493
Niall Cunningham
21 Sifting through text and time - computational text analysis for historical
sociology 513
Ana Macanovic
