Аннотация к курсу «Историческая социология».
Описание курса:
Дисциплина «Историческая социология» дает студентам обзор основных теорий и понятий в
междисциплинарной обрасти исторической социологии и, шире, кросс-дисциплинарного
диалога между историей и социологией. Курс состоит из двух частей. В первой половине
семестра студенты знакомятся с различными школами, традициями и методами в
исторической социологии. Студенты будут читать и обсуждать самые известные с
методологической точки зрения тексты, узнают о способах использования социологических
моделей и теорий в истории. Вторая половина курса должна познакомить студентов с
наиболее важными темами для изучения в исторической социологии. Будут рассмотрены
теории в области исторической социологии государства, города, религии, нации, класса,
географии и пространства, языка и идей, революций, международных отношений и войн.
Студенты научатся применять теоретические и методологические концепции из первой
половине курса на конкретных исторических проблемах, сравнивать и критиковать
различные подходы и модели.
План курса:
Общее Лекции Семинары Само
количест
стоят
во часов
ельна
я
работ
а
10
2
2
6
№
Темы
1
Введение. Социология и
история.
10
Историческая социология
Карла Маркса.
Марксистский исторический
анализ в XX в. Перри
Андерсон и исторический
материализм
10
Макс Вебер и
интерпретативная традиция
в исторической социологии.
Идеальные типы в истории
10
Эволюционистская
социология и исторический
эволюционизм.
Функционалистский подход в
исторической социологии.
Социологические подходы в 10
рамках “школы Анналов”.
Социология Фернана
Броделя.
10
Норберт Элиас и
2
3
4
5
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
16
17
18
цивилизационные
исследования. Бенджамин
Нельсон, Шмуэль
Айзенштадт.
Теория модернизации и
историческая социология.
Экономическая история,
клиометрия и историческая
социология. Роберт Фогель .
Дуглас Норт.
Историко-социологические
подходы в политической
истории. Чарльз Тилли,
Баррингтон Мур, Теда
Скочпол, Иммануэль
Валлерстайн и его “мирсистема”.
Теории государства.
Образование нововременного
государства в освещении
исторической социологии.
Социология революций
Нация в истории.
Социологические подходы к
зарождению и истории
национализма
Историческая социология
культуры
Гендер в исторической
социологии
Историческая социология
религии.
Исторический анализ
городов. Подгоды в
исторической урбанистке.
Заключительное занятие.
Обсуждение эссе.
Total
10
2
2
6
10
2
2
6
10
2
2
6
10
2
2
6
10
10
2
2
2
2
6
6
10
2
2
6
10
2
2
6
10
2
2
6
10
2
2
6
10
0
4
6
180
36
36
108
Требования к уровню знаний студентов:
Уровень английского языка достаточный для чтения академических текстов и написания
письменных работ.
Базовые знания социологических понятий и терминов.
Преподаватель: Успенский Владимир Сергеевич, ст. преп., Департамент истории НИУ ВШЭ
– Санкт-Петербург
Тип экзамена: письменный.
1. Area of Application and regulatory references
The program intends to lay the basic foundation of knowledge and determine the content and forms
of educational activities and assessment.
The program has been developed in accordance with:
● Educational standard of NRU HSE for Bachelor level education program “History”
● Educational Programs of NRU HSE for Bachelor level education, area of studies 030600.62
"History”
● University Academic Plan of NRU HSE – Saint Petersburg for Bachelor level education,
030600.62 "History” area of studies, the 1rd year of education.
2. Course goals
The goals of the discipline «Historical Sociology» include an overview of the basic concepts of
historical sociology and the cross-disciplinary dialog between History and Sociology. The course
consists of two parts. First half of the semester the students are introduced to different schools,
traditions and methods in historical sociology. Students will read and discuss the most prominent
texts in the field from the methodological point of view, learn about the historical applications of
sociological models and theories in general. The second half of the course is designed to introduce
students to the most important topics of analysis in historical sociology. Students will be introduces
to the historical sociology of State, City, Religion, Nation and Race, Class, Geography and Space,
Language and Ideas, Revolution, International Relations and War. Students will learn to apply the
theoretical concepts of the first half of the course to particular historical fields and subjects,
compare and criticize different approaches and models.
3. Students' Competencies to be developed by the Course
Students will:
 Learn the history of Historical Sociology, study the most important works in the field;
 Be able to work with interdisciplinary texts in history and sociology, apply theoretical
sociological models in their own research papers;
 Gain and develop the skills of critical thinking and analysis of the sociological and historical
research from different disciplinary positions.
As a result of the studying of the discipline, students master the following competences:
Competencies
NC/NR
U-HSE
Code
Able to learn and
СК-Б1
develop new
competencies and skills
in different fields,
including those other
Descriptors - the learning Teaching forms and
outcomes (the indicators of methods that contribute to
achievement)
the development of a
competence
Capable to conduct academic Lectures,
seminars,
discussions
in
English, individual
work,
and
evaluate critically methods of presentations
historical research, gain skills
necessary for presentations
than the professional
filed.
Able to work with
information: to search,
assess and use the
information from
various sources in
accomplishing research
and professional tasks.
СК-Б6
Students gain skills of Lectures,
seminars,
information literacy, as well individual
work,
and
as of analysis of historical and presentations, essays
sociological
research
in
English. Students search for
additional
information
considering the topic of their
choice while working on the
essays.
Able to conduct
independent research,
including the problem
analysis, goal setting,
subjects for
investigation, the choice
of methodology and
assessment of the
results.
СК-Б7
Students gain skills of Lectures,
seminars,
individual research in the field individual
work,
and
of history
presentations, essays
Able to communicate
considering the goals
and situation of the
communication.
СК-Б9
Get acquainted with new ИК – Б
approaches in social
1.1_2.1
sciences and humanities. _2.2_2.
3_2.4_2
.5_2.6_
5.3_5.6
Ability of oral and
written communication
in Russian and English
languages.
ИК –
Б 2.1_2
.2_2.3_
2.4_2.5
_2.6_4.
2_4.4–
Students gain skills of
academic writing and public
discussion in English, using
professional terminology
Lectures,
seminars,
individual work, and
presentations, essays
Students gain skills necessary Lectures,
seminars,
for analyzing major debates in
individual work, and
historical sociology. Students
presentations, essays
learn about the actual research
fields, get to know high rated
academic journals in social
history
and
historical
sociology.
Students generalize and assess Seminars,
work
the research articles, develop discussion groups.
the skills of presenting and
discussing academic texts in
English.
in
Ability to use foreign
language for search and
use foreign
informational sources.
4
ИК – Б Students work with full-text
1.1_2.1 databases, find and use
_2.3_2. academic articles in English
4.2_4.1 to prepare for class
discussions and write an
academic essay on a topic of
their choice.
Class
essay
discussions
and
How the Course Fits in with the Curriculum
The Course is to be based on the acquisition of the following Courses (at the bachelor level):
English
Theory and History of Historical Knowledge
Sociology
Political History of Russia
Global and Comparative History
Research Seminar
The Course requires the following students' competencies and knowledge:
Basic knowledge of sociological terms and theories
English skills
The main provisions of the Course should be used for further studies of the following Courses:
Social History of Modern Times
History and Sociology of Humanities
History of the Russian state
Comparative History of Empires and Nationalism
5. Course Schedule
Total
Lectures Seminars
amount
of hours
10
2
2
№
Topic
1
Introduction. Sociology meets
history.
10
Historical Sociology of Karl
Marx. Marxist historical
analysis. Perry Anderson and
historical materialism.
Max Weber and interpretative 10
tradition in historical sociology.
Ideal (pure) types in history.
10
Evolutionary sociology and
historical evolutionism.
2
3
4
Self
Study
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
16
17
18
Functionalist approach to
historical sociology.
Sociological approach of “The 10
Annales” school. Fernand
Braudel.
Norbert Elias and civilizational 10
studies. Benjamin Nelson.
Shmuel Eisenstadt
10
Modernization theory and
historical sociology.
10
Economic history and
Cliometrics in historical
sociology. Robert Fogel.
Douglass Nort.
10
Approaches of historical
sociology in political history.
Charles Tilly. Barrington
Moore, Theda Skocpol.
Immanuel Wallerstein and his
World-System
10
Theories of state-building.
Formation of the Modern State.
10
Sociology of Revolutions
10
Race and Nation in History.
Different approaches to
nationalism.
Historical sociology of culture 10
and ideas.
Gender in historical sociology 10
Historical sociology of religion. 10
Historical analysis of the cities. 10
Approaches to urban history.
10
Final seminar. Essay
presentation and review
180
Total
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
6
2
2
2
2
6
6
2
2
6
2
2
2
2
2
2
6
6
6
0
4
6
36
36
108
6. Forms of control of students’ knowledge
Type
control
Current
(week)
of Form of control
Modules
1
Questions
and
answers in the
class,
class
participation,
graded
and
2
Requirements
3
x
4
Each student is expected to read
and analyze the assigned readings
so that s(he) is able to participate in
the class discussions.
recorded in The
Journal of Class
Participation
Current
(week)
Written
assignment (essay)
Final
Written exam
assessment
x
Academic essay of 15.000.
characters. Students are given a set
of recommended topics, but are
also encouraged to suggest their
own.
x
Written work in the classroom on a
given topic. Topics are assigned by
the teacher.
Criteria for assessing the student’s knowledge and skills
Final grade is formed from:
1. Grade of written essay.
2. Grade of the participation in class discussion
3. Grade of final written exam
Requirements for the essay:
Students are encouraged to write a paper with an overview of selected topic based on no less than 5
scholarly sources. Several topics are suggested by the teacher, but students are encourages to
suggest a topic of their own.
The essay is expected to contain a historiographical study of a given topic. The essay should
indicate the important approaches, authors and works (articles and monographs), written in the field
and give a brief analysis of such works. The teacher assesses the importance and adequacy of
indicated works.
The student must show an understanding of professional vocabulary and terminology and
familiarity with the basic research areas of historical sociology.
Requirements for final exam:
During the final control the teacher assesses the student’s learning of the lectures and seminar
material. The final control is carried out in the form of a written examination. Students are given 90
minutes to complete a short essay on a given topic.
The teacher evaluates the activity of students at classes. Students are allowed to skip 2 classes
without lowering of the grade. Skipping more than 2 classes is estimated rating of "0". Marks for
work in seminars are put in the class journal.
The final grade accounts for the results of a student`s performance as follows:
G final = 0,4*G class work + 0,3*G essay + 0,3*Gfinal exam
Rounding of the grades is done as follows: if the score, which is calculated by the formula above, is
greater than or equal to the arithmetic mean between the nearest integer values, then the higher of
the nearest integer value is taken, otherwise – the lower of the nearest integer values is used.
7. COURSE CONTENTS
1. Introduction. History meets sociology.
Social statics and social dynamics in Auguste Comte’s design of sociology.
Historical questions in sociology and sociological problems in history.
What’s the difference between historical sociology and social history. Different approaches to
‘scientific’ history. Paul Veyne’s view of “complete history”. Philipp Abrams and “sociology as
history”.
Required reading
Abbott A. History and sociology: The lost synthesis // Social Science History. 1991. P. 201–238.
Skocpol T. Sociology’s historical imagination // Vision and method in historical sociology. 1984.
Additional reading
Abbott A. History and sociology: The lost synthesis // Social Science History. 1991. С. 201–238.
Burke, Peter. History and social theory. Polity, 2005.
Calhoun C. Explanation in Historical Sociology: Narrative, General Theory, and Historically
Specific Theory1 // American Journal of Sociology. 1998. Vol. 104. № 3. P. 846–871.
Mahoney J. Path dependence in historical sociology // Theory and society. 2000. Vol. 29. № 4. P.
507–548.
Abrams, Phillip. History, Sociology, Historical Sociology. Past and Present 87 (1980): 3-16
Tilly, Charles. As sociology meets history. New York: Academic Press, 1981.
Вебер М. «Объективность» социально-научного и социально-политического познания //
Избранное: Протестантская этика и дух капитализма. М.: “Центр гуманитарных инициатив”.
2. Historical Sociology of Karl Marx. Marxist historical analysis. Perry Anderson and
historical materialism.
Historical sociology of Karl Marx. “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” as an example of
historical and sociological analysis by Marx. How Marx and Engels define historical materialism.
Marx’s and Engels’ reflections on their historical method in “The German Ideology”, “Communist
Manifesto” and other works.
Marx’s ideas in 20th century historiography. Eric Hobsbawm Marxist structuralism.
Required reading
Marx K. The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Ch. 1, 7. Online edition. URL:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/
Anderson P. Passages from antiquity to feudalism. Part II. Western Europe. Typology of social
formations. Verso Books, 2013. P. 154-172
Additional reading
Anderson P. Lineages of the absolutist state. : Verso Books, 2013.
Engels F. The origin of the family, private property and the state. : Penguin UK, 2010.
Hobsbawm E.J. introduction to Karl Marx // Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations. 1964. С. 20–27.
Hobsbawm E.J. Karl Marx’s contribution to historiography // 1968.
Rigby S.H., Rigby S.H. Marxism and history: A critical introduction. : Manchester University
Press, 1998.
Trotsky L. History of the Russian revolution. : Haymarket Books, 2008.
3. Max Weber and interpretative tradition in historical sociology. Ideal (pure) types in history
Max Weber revises Ranke’s ideas on history. Weber’s reflections on conceptual
abstraction in historical analysis. Ideal types in “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”.
Interpretative approach and multi-causality.
Adoption of Max Weber’s methodology in Historical Sociology. Examples of Shmuel Eisenstadt
and Reinhard Bendix. Michael Mann.
Required reading:
Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Ch. 1&5 Online edition. URL:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WEBER/toc.html
Additional reading.
Bendix R. The mandate to rule: An introduction // Social Forces. 1976. Vol. 55. № 2. P. 242–256.
Eisenstadt S.N. Internal Contradictions in Bureaucratic Polities // Comparative Studies in Society
and History. 1958. Vol.1. № 01. P. 58–75.
Tyrell H. History and sociology–the First Century. From Ranke to Weber // InterDisciplines.
Journal of History and Sociology. 2010. Vol. 1. № 1.
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power, Vol. I. A History of Power from the Beginning to AD
1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Mann, M. The Sources of Social Power, Vol. 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1993.
4. Evolutionary sociology and historical evolutionism. Functionalist approach to historical
sociology.
Positivist theories of society. Evolutionary sociology of Howard Spender.
Functionalist theory of social changes. Teleological history of Talcott Parsons.
Required reading:
Parsons T. Evolutionary universals in society // American sociological review. 1964. Vol. 29. P.
339–357.
Additional reading
Alexander J.C. Formal and substantive voluntarism in the work of Talcott Parsons: a theoretical and
ideological reinterpretation // American Sociological Review. 1978. P. 177–198.
Allen, G.E. 'Evolution and History: History as Science and Science as History', // M.H. Nitecki and
D.V Nitecki (eds), History and Evolution. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992. pp. 2 1 1 - 4 0.
Turner J.H. Herbert Spencer: a renewed appreciation. : Sage Beverly Hills, CA, 1985.
Turner J.H. The Forgotton Theoretical Giant: Herbert Spencer’s Models and Principles // Revue
européenne des sciences sociales. 1981. P. 79–98.
5. Sociological approaches of “The Annales”. Fernand Braudel.
Durgheimean roots of «The Annales». Marс Bloch and historical sociology. Fernand Braudel and
social theory.
Braudel's sociological approach to history. Generalizations of la longue duree. Braudel's legacy in
the discipline of Global history.
Required reading:
Braudel, F. 'History and the Social Sciences // Braudel F. On history. : University of Chicago Press,
1982.
Braudel, Fernand History and Sociology // Braudel F. On history. : University of Chicago Press,
1982. P. 64-82
Additional reading:
Bellah, R. J. Durgheim and History // R.A. Nisbet, ed. Emile Durkheim, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice
Hall. 1965. pp. 153-76.
Braudel F. On history. : University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Burke P. The French historical revolution: the Annales school, 1929-89. : Stanford University
Press, 1990.
Goody J. Two Sides of t h e Mediterranean // The development of the family and marriage in
Europe. : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Roth G., Schluchter W. Duration and Rationalization: Fernand Braudel and Max Weber', // Max
Weber’s vision of history: Ethics and methods. : Univ of California Press, 1984.
Stoianovich T., Braudel F. French historical method: the Annales paradigm. : Cornell University
Press Ithaca, NY, 1976.
6.Norbert Elias and civilizational studies. Benjamin Nelson. Samuel Eisenstadt
Norbert Elias’ processual theory of the making of the modern individual. 'Sociogenesis' and
'psychogenesis'. Habitus as an analytical concept. Civilizational complexes and analysis by
Benjamin Nelson. Eisenstadt's «Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations»
Required reading:
Elias N. Loneliness of the Dying. : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001. P.1-67.
Additional reading
Elias N. The Civilizing Process, vols. 1 and 2. : Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Elias N. The Germans. : Columbia University Press, 1997. 518 pp.
Mandalios J. Civilization and the human subject. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
Mennell S. Norbert Elias: Civilization and the human self-image. : Blackwell Oxford, 1989.
Nelson B. Civilizational complexes and intercivilizational encounters // SA. Sociological Analysis.
1973. С. 79–105.
Nelson B. Conscience and the making of early modern cultures:« the protestant ethic» beyond max
weber // Social Research. 1969. С. 4–21.
Nelson B.N. On the Roads to Modernity: Conscience, Science, and Civilizations: Selected Writings.
: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated, 1981a.
7.Modernization theory and historical sociology.
Key concepts and authors of modernization theory. Traditional, Modern and Post-Modern societies.
Value systems and institutions. Marion
J. Levy. Daniel Lerner. David McClelland. Neil Smelser
Marxist criticism of the modernization theory in the 1960s. ‘Death’ and revival of modernization
theory since 1980s. Ronald F. Inglehart and the evolution of Modernization Theory
Required reading:
Inglehart R., Welzel C. Modernization, cultural change, and democracy: The human development
sequence. : Cambridge University Press, 2005. Ch.1. A Revised Theory of Modernization
Additional reading
Alexander J.C. Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Social Theories Have Tried to Understand
the’New World’of’Our Time’ // Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 1994. Т. 23. № 3. С. 165–197.
Harrison D.H. The sociology of modernization and development. : Routledge, 2003.
Lerner D. The passing of traditional society: Modernizing the Middle East. // 1958.
Levine D.N. The Flexibility of Traditional Culture* // Journal of Social Issues. 1968. Т. 24. № 4. С.
129–141.
McClelland D.C. Achieving society. : Simon and Schuster, 1967.
8.Economic history and Cliometrics in historical sociology. Robert Fogel. Douglass North.
New institutionalism and historical sociology.
The Economics of Slavery by Alfred Conrad and John Mayer and the foundation а Cliometrics.
Economical answers to historical and sociological questions. Robert Fogel.
Douglass North and his concept or deep economic root of social life. New understanding of
institutions in history.
Required reading:
North, D. Government and the Cost of Exchange in History. // The Journal of Economic History,
1984. №44(2). P. 255-264
Additional reading
Barzel, Y., Kiser, E.. Taxation and Voting Rights in Medieval England and France. // Rationality
and Society, 2002. 14(4). P. 473-507
Fogel R.W. Railroads and American economic growth. : Cambridge Univ Press, 1994.
Fogel R.W. Time on the cross: The economics of American Negro slavery. : WW Norton &
Company, 1995.
Milgrom, P., Grief, A., Weingast, B. Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the
Merchant Guild. // The Journal of Political Economy, 1994. 102(4). P. 745-776
North D.C. Institutions, institutional change and economic performance. : Cambridge university
press, 1990.
North D.C. The rise of the western world: A new economic history. : Cambridge University Press,
1973.
North D.C. Understanding the process of economic change. : Academic Foundation, 2006.
Padgett, J., McLean P.D., Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of
Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence // American Journal of Sociology, 2006. 111(5): P.
1463-568.
9.Historical sociology approaches to political history. Charles Tilly. Barrington Moore, Theda
Skocpol. Immanuel Wallerstein and his World-System
Brief observation of the theories of the ‘state’ in the history of political science.
Sociological and political analysis of Contentious politics and Modern state foundations by Charles
Tilly.
Theda Scocpol and ‘bringing the state back in’.
Class structure and the way towards the modern world in the works of Barrington Moore.
World-System of Immanuel Wallenstein. interactions of political and economic systems in history.
Required reading:
Wallerstein, I. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for
Comparative Analysis // Comparative Studies in Society and History. 1974. 16(4). P. 387-415
Additional reading
Moore, B. The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in European
History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1966
Skocpol, T. State and Social Revolution: The Comparative Study of France, Russia and China.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Tilly, C. Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990-1992. Cambridge, MA & Oxford, UK,
1992.
Wallerstein, I. A World-System Perspective on the Social Sciences // The British Journal of
Sociology. 1976 № 27(3). P. 343-352
Wallerstein, I. From Feudalism to Capitalism: Transition or Transitions // Social Forces. 1976.
55(2): 273-283
Wallerstein, I. The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and Emergence of European
World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. New York: Academic Press, 1974.
Wallerstein, I. The Politics of the World Economy. Cambridge University Press. 1984
10. Historical analysis of the cities. Approaches to urban history
Historical sociology of the city and urban history. Charles Tilly’s criticism of urban history.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges as a first historical sociologist of the city.
Max Weber ‘s and Lewis Mumford’s contribution to the sociology of the city. Civitas and Urbis.
Required reading:
Coulanges N.D.F. De. The ancient city: A study of the religion, laws, and institutions of Greece and
Rome. : Courier Dover Publications, 2012. Book 3. Ch. I-IV, IX-XI, XIV.
Additional reading
Colognesi L.C. The limits of the ancient city and the evolution of the medieval city in the thought of
Max Weber // Urban Society in Roman Italy. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995.
Dyos H.J., Wolff M. The Victorian city: images and realities. Psychology Press, 1998.
Finley M.I. The ancient city: from Fustel de Coulanges to Max Weber and beyond // Comparative
Studies in Society and History. 1977. Vol. 19. № 03. P. 305–327.
Momigliano A. The ancient city of Fustel de Coulanges // Essays in Ancient and Modern
Historiography. 1970. P. 325–43.
Mumford L. The City in history. Its origins, its transformation, and its prospects. London: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich 1961.
Mumford L. The culture of cities . Chicago, 1981.
Pirenne H. Medieval cities: Their origins and the revival of trade. : Princeton University Press,
1956.
Tilly C. What good is urban history? // Journal of Urban History. 1996. Vol. 22. № 6. P. 702–719.
Tilly C., Blockmans W.P. Cities and the Rise of States in Europe, AD 1000 to 1800. : Westview Pr,
1994.
11.Theories of state-building. Formation of the Modern State.
Theories of the Institutionalization of rule and “Statalization”.
War as a critical concern in State-building.
Is State-making a reunion or a disposal?
How did the state-making ‘seek for power’ turn to the taming of the power. The birth of public
policy.
Required reading:
Tilly C. Reflections on the history of European state-making // The formation of national states in
Western Europe. 1975. P. 3–83.
Additional reading
Downing B.M. The military revolution and political change: Origins of democracy and autocracy in
early modern Europe. Princeton University Press, 1993.
Jouvenel B. de. On power: Its nature and the history of its growth. New York, 1949.
Kaiser D.E. Politics and war: European conflict from Philip II to Hitler. Harvard University Press,
2000.
Porter B.D. War and the rise of the state: The military foundations of modern politics. New York:
Free Press, 1994.
Tilly C. Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1992. : Blackwell Oxford, 1992.
Weber E. Peasants into Frenchmen: the modernization of rural France, 1870-1914. : Stanford
University Press, 1976.
12. Sociology of Revolutions
Marxist theory of the revolution. Driving forces of the revolution Contemporary applications of
Marxist theory of Revolution (Hobsbawm, Perry Anderson).
Leon Trotsky and his «History of Russian Revolution»
Skocpol criticism of the 'voluntaristic' theories of Revolution and her contribution to 'realistic'
theory of revolution. .
Required reading:
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions. Cambridge Univ Press, 1979 Ch. 1. Pp. 1-18.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Hachette UK, 2010. Ch. 3. French revolution. Pp.
53-77.
Additional reading:
Davies, James C. 1962. “Toward a Theory of Revolution.” American Sociological Review, 5–19.
Selbin, Eric. 1997. “Revolution in the Real World: Bringing Agency Back in.” In Theorizing
Revolutions, edited by John Foran, 123–36. Routledge.
Pincus, Steven. 2009. “Rethinking Revolutions: a Neo‐ Tocquevillian Perspective.” In The Oxford
Handbook of Comparative Politics, edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. Oxford University
Press.
Sorokin P. A. Sociology of Revolution. Philadelphia, 1925.
Kimmel M.S. Revolution, a sociological interpretation. : Temple University Press, 1990.
Trotsky L. History of the Russian revolution. : Haymarket Books, 2008.
13. Nation in History. Different historical and sociological approaches to nationalism.
'Modernist' and 'primordialist' theories of the nation.
Constructivist theories of nation. Joseph Llobera and a 'third way' between ‘modernist’ and
‘transhistorical’ understandings of nation.
Transition from traditional forms of collective political community (kingdoms, empires, city-states)
to the modern nation.
State-building and modern nations.
Class structure and modern nations.
Nations as cultural communities. Nations as ethnic groups. Nations as subjective ('imagined')
identities. Structural, cultura and mobilization theories of modern nation.
Required reading:
Hobsbawm E.J. Nations and nationalism since 1780: Programme, myth, reality. Cambridge
University Press, 2012. Ch.1
Additional reading
Anderson B. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. : Verso
Books, 2006.
Barth F. Ethnic groups and boundaries: The social organization of culture difference. Waveland
Press, 1998.
Bendix R. Nation-building and citizenship: studies of our changing social order. : Univ of
California Press, 1977. Canovan M. Nationhood and political theory. : Edward Elgar Cheltenham,
1996.
Gellner E. Adam’s Navel:‘Primordialists’ versus ‘Modernists’ // People, Nation and State. London
and NY: IB Tauris Publishers. 1999.
Gellner E. Nations and nationalism. Cornell University Press, 2008.
Hobsbawm E.J. Nations and nationalism since 1780: Programme, myth, reality. Cambridge
University Press, 2012.
Horch M. Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe. : Cambridge. Cambridge University
Press, 1985.
Mann M. The emergence of modern European nationalism // Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of
the Sciences and the Humanities. 1996. Vol. 48. P. 147–170.
Moore B. Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: Lord and peasant in the making of the
modern world. : Beacon Press, 1993.
Smith A.D. The nation: real or imagined // People, Nation and State. 1999. P. 36–42.
14. Historical sociology of culture and ideas.
The linguistic turn in historical sociology. Michel Foucault and discourse formations. Reinhart
Koselleck’s and Quentin Skinner’s approaches to the history of concepts.
Historical sociologists and intellectual historians on the linguistic and cultural dimension of French
Revolution: a case study.
Cultural history and historical sociology.
Required reading:
Loews J. Intellectual history after the linguistic turn // American Historical Review. 1987. Vol. 92.
P. 879–907.
Skocpol T. Cultural idioms and political ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of state
power: A rejoinder to Sewell // The Journal of Modern History. 1985. P. 86–96.
Additional reading
Baker K.M. Inventing the French Revolution `: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth
Century. : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Bonnell V.E., Hunt L.A., Biernacki R. Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of
Society and Culture. : University of California Press, 1999.
Foucault M. The order of things: An archaeology of the human sciences. : Psychology Press, 2002.
Furet F. The French Revolution, 1770-1814. : Blackwell, 1996.
Koselleck R. Begriffsgeschichte and social history // Economy and society. 1982. Vol. 11. № 4. P.
409–427.
Loews J. Intellectual history after the linguistic turn // American Historical Review. 1987. Vol. 92.
P. 879–907.
Skinner Q. Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas // History and theory. 1969. P. 3–53.
Skinner Q. Liberty before liberalism. : Cambridge Univ Press, 1998.
Skocpol T. Cultural idioms and political ideologies in the revolutionary reconstruction of state
power: A rejoinder to Sewell // The Journal of Modern History. 1985. P. 86–96.
15. Gender in history and historical sociology
Feminist historiography and the concept of Gender. History of gender categories.
Conceptualizations of patriarchy.
Gender history and Family history.
Engendering of the states.
Required reading:
Walby S. From private to public patriarchy: the periodisation of British history // Women’s studies
international forum. Elsevier, 1990. P. 91–104.
Additional reading
Barrett M., McIntosh M. The anti-social family. : Nlb, 1982.
Connell R.W. The state, gender, and sexual politics // Theory and society. 1990. Vol. 19. № 5. P.
507–544.
Hill B. Women, work and the census: a problem for historians of women // History Workshop
Journal. Oxford Univ Press, 1993. P. 78–94.
Miller P. Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500-1900. : Indiana University Press, 1998.
Partner N.F. Studying medieval women: sex, gender, feminism. : Medieval Academy of Amer,
1993.
Pateman C. The sexual contract. : Stanford University Press, 1988.
Riley D. « Am I that Name?»: Feminism and the Category of« women» in History. London:
Macmillan, 1988.
Staves S. Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660-1833. Harvard University Press,
1990.
Szreter S. Fertility, class and gender in Britain, 1860-1940. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Taylor B. Eve and the New Jerusalem: socialism and feminism in the nineteenth century. Harvard
University Press, 1983.
Walby S. From private to public patriarchy: the periodisation of British history // Women’s studies
international forum. Elsevier, 1990. P. 91–104.
16. Historical sociology of religion.
Karl Marx’s Emil Durkheim’s and Max Weber’s sociology of religion.
Institutions as channels of symbolic (charismatic) violence. The evolution of church and state. The
challenge of Protestantism.
Bryan Wilson and the problem of ‘religion and secularization’.
Required reading:
Weber M. The sociology of religion. : Beacon Press, 1993. Books 'D' & 'E'
Additional reading
Berger P.L. The desecularization of the world: Resurgent religion and world politics. : Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing, 1999.
Beyer P. Religion and globalization. : Sage, 1994.
Durkheim E. The elementary forms of the religious life. : Courier Dover Publications, 2012.
Niebuhr H.R. The social sources of denominationalism. : Meridian Books New York, 1957.
Parsons T. Christianity and modern industrial society. 1963.
Weber M. The sociology of religion. : Beacon Press, 1993.
9. Educational technologies.
The course is based around lectures and seminars. The goal of the teacher is to give a short
introduction to a certain topic and to provide and moderate a forum to discuss important theoretical
and methodological issues in the field. The students are encouraged to write essays on a topic
relative to their own research projects. This way the course is meant to help students develop the
skills necessary to become a critical and informed researcher and gain analytic tools for the
theoretical conceptualization in historic research.
10. Assessment tools
The topic of the essay for each student shall be approved by the teacher individually.
Questions for the final exam
1. Karl Marx and Marxist tradition in historical sociology. Definition of the types of legitimate
domination by Max Weber.
2. Interpretative historical sociology.
3. Evolutionary sociology and functionalism.
4. Historical sociology of Norbert Elias.
5. Modernization theory.
6. Economic history, clinometric and new institutionalism in historical sociology.
7. Theories of revolution.
9. Theoretical conceptions of Modern state-building.
10. Historical sociology of religion
11. Historical sociology of the city.
11. Information basis for the course
Required reading
Required reading is listed in the course topics.
Additional reading
Additional reading is listed in the course topics.
12. Technical support
Lectures and seminars are supported by Power Point presentations, shown by OHP projector.