Remaking Modernity

Julia Adams is Professor of Sociology at Yale University. She is the author of The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe.Elisabeth Clemens is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The People’s Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of the Interest Group.Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is States, Markets, Families: Gender, Social Policy, and Liberalism in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States (with Julia O’Connor and Sheila Shaver).

“Remaking Modernity is the best representation available of the large and excellent generation of American historical sociologists now becoming prominent in the discipline.”-Craig Calhoun, President of the Social Science Research Council “Here, all in one volume, is the best of the rising generation of historical sociologists, applying their craft to themselves, reflecting on their antecedents in order to chart our discipline’s futures. Ranging across multiple fields, wrestling with the Marxist-inspired iconoclasm of second-wave historical sociology, this is sure to become a definitive text of the third wave.”-Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Social Theory, Modernity and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology / Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff 1Part I: Historical Sociology and Epistemological Underpinnings The Action Turn? Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct / Richard Biernacki 75Overlapping Territories and Intertwined Histories: Historical Sociology's Global Imagination / Zine Magubene 92The Epistemological Unconscious of U.S. Sociology and the Transition to Post-Fordism: The Case of Historical Sociology / George Steinmetz 109Part II: State Formation and Historical Sociology The Return of the Repressed: Religion and the Political Unconscious of Historical Sociology / Philip S. Gorski 161Social Provision and Regulation: Theories of States, Social Policies, and Modernity / Ann Shola Orloff 190The Bureaucratization of States: Toward an Analytical Weberianism / Edgar Kiser and Justin Baer 225Part III: History and Political Contention Mars Revealed: The Entry of Ordinary People into War among the States / Meyer Kestnbaum 249Historical Sociology and Collective Action / Roger V. Gould 286Revolutions as Pathways to Modernity / Nader Sohrabi 300Part IV: Capitalism, Modernity, and the Economic Realm Historical Sociology and the Economy: Actors, Networks, and Context / Bruce G. Carruthers 333The Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms / Rebecca Jean Emigh 355The Professions: Prodigal Daughters of Modernity / Ming-Cheng M. Lo 381Part V: Politics, History, and Collective Identities Nations / Lyn Spillman and Russell Faeges 409Citizenship Troubles: Genealogies of Struggle for the Soul of the Social / Margaret R. Somers 438Ethnicity without Groups / Rogers Brubake 470Afterword: Logics of History? Agency, Multiplicity, and Incoherence in the Explanation of Change / Elisabeth S. Clemens 493References 517Contributors 599Index 603