After positivism : new approaches to comparison in historical sociology /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Wilson, Nicholas Hoover (Editor), Mayrl, Damon, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Comparison After Positivism, by Damon Mayrl and Nicholas Hoover Wilson
  • Part I. Why Compare?
  • 1. The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in Comparative Historical Analysis, by Stefan Bargheer
  • 2. Comparison in Action: Immersion and Recursion as Heuristics in Historical Sociology, by Damon Mayrl
  • 3. The Meaningfulness of Comparison: A Macro-Phenomenological Exploration, by Xiaohong Xu
  • 4. From Causality to Constitution: Why Good Historical Comparisons Are the Same as Good Ethnographic Case Studies, Deep Down, by Josh Pacewicz
  • Part II. What to Compare
  • 5. Process Theories and Comparative Sociology: Some Problems and a Solution, by Natalie B. Aviles
  • 6. Designing Narratives and Recovering Legal Narrativity: An Exploratory Essay, by Laura R. Ford
  • 7. Comparison, Context, and the Power of Modern Corruption, by Nicholas Hoover Wilson
  • Part III. How to Compare
  • 8. Comparative Sociology, Critical Realism, and Reflexivity, by George Steinmetz
  • 9. Historicizing Comparisons in Historical Sociology, by Jonah Stuart Brundage
  • 10. How Not to Lie with Comparative Historical Sociology: A Realist Balance Sheet, by Simeon J. Newman
  • 11. Historical Causation and Temporally Sensitive Comparisons, by Yang Zhang
  • 12. The Dialectical Comparative Methodology, by Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed
  • Afterword, by Philip Gorski
  • Contributors
  • Index.