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THE HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE
1986The institution of marriage, on which the family is based, is becoming better understood as a result of recent historical, demographic and anthropological research. To some extent, the methods and approaches to problems used by these disciplines have converged, providing fresh data in this area. Over a time-span stretching from the sixteenth century to
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The historical sociology of healthcare
1993At its most basic, a research method is a means of ‘knowing’ about the social world. It represents one particular means of answering the fundamental question about the basis of knowledge of the social world. How can we ‘know’ about the social world? There are three main answers to this epistemological question.
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Comparative Historical Sociology
2011Comparative historical sociology is the branch of sociology that analyzes society-wide transformations, such as social revolutions, the rise of capitalism and the nation-state, democratization, and the birth and transformation of welfare states. At the end of the 19th century all of sociology’s European founders turned to historical explanation to ...
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2011
This article examines the different methods employed in historical sociology through which historical macro social outcomes are investigated — comparative, institutional, relational, and cultural — as well as the enduring tension revealed by the meso-level structures that often shape outcomes.
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This article examines the different methods employed in historical sociology through which historical macro social outcomes are investigated — comparative, institutional, relational, and cultural — as well as the enduring tension revealed by the meso-level structures that often shape outcomes.
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The Rise of Historical Sociology
The British Journal of Sociology, 1993John A. Hall, Dennis Smith
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