This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiři Subrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development, long term process and changes in the key areas of social life. These include not only temporalized sociology, evolutionary theory, civilizational analysis, societal systems, structures and functions, but also modernization and revolution, risk, crisis, catastrophe and collapse, wars, conflicts and violence, nations, nationalism and collective memory. This study does not ignore the fundamental...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiři Subrt systematically dis...
This book examines individualism and holism, the two interpretive perspectives that have divided sociological theory into two camps, examines attempts to overcome this antinomy and sets out a new approach to resolving this dilemma via 'critical reconfigurationism'.
This book examines individualism and holism, the two interpretive perspectives that have divided sociological theory into two camps, examines attempts...