The most important impacts of social movements are often cultural, but the sheer variety of
potential cultural impacts—from shifts in public opinion to new portrayals of a group on …

Since the 1970s, historical sociology in the United States has been constituted by a
configuration of substantive questions, a theoretical vocabulary anchored in concepts of …

Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and
disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the …

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while
postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus …

Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but it has left sociology
comparatively unscathed. Does this mean that postcolonial theory is not relevant to …

'Theory'is one of the most important words in the lexicon of contemporary sociology. Yet,
their ubiquity notwithstanding, it is quite unclear what sociologists mean by the words …

Although most political sociologists and political scientists nowadays either consider
themselves or are deemed “institutionalists,” key differences remain among major schools of …

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich
industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have …

In the introduction to this volume, the author explains why social historians should study the
relationship between humour and social protest in the past. The following questions are of …

This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology:(1) neo-Weberian
historical sociology within International Relations;(2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach …