Social Theory and Social History

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
The need for theory in historical explanation......Page 14
The expansion of social history......Page 17
The developing relationship between social theory and social history......Page 19
1 Cinderella Gets Her Prince? The Development of Social History......Page 22
Ideas, philosophy and the roots of social history......Page 23
Silencing the \'drum and trumpet\'? early social history traditions in Britain......Page 27
1945 and after......Page 35
Conclusion......Page 44
Introduction......Page 46
The temporary separation of history and sociology......Page 47
Differing reactions to the growing convergence of history and sociology......Page 50
Historical sociology......Page 53
Historical sociology: the view from the air......Page 60
Historical sociology on the ground: an example......Page 64
Conclusions......Page 67
The intellectual context of large-scale thinking in social history......Page 68
\'Histoire Totale\': the world of Braudel......Page 71
Braudel\'s influence......Page 75
Comparative history......Page 80
The postmodern challenge......Page 88
Conclusion......Page 91
Introduction......Page 93
Structure and agency in history and sociology......Page 94
Society and the individual: structure and agency in social theory......Page 97
Looking for an exit from the structuralist maze: post-structuralism, figuration and structuration......Page 108
Class, gender and ethnicity in the historical process......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 129
5 Ideology, Mentalité and Social Ritual: From Social History to Cultural History......Page 131
Historic approaches to social and cultural aspects of the past......Page 133
Ideology and mentality......Page 136
Marxist social history, \'history from below\' and subordinate \'cultures\'......Page 138
From women\'s history to gender history......Page 141
Cultural history as \'the history of mentalities\'......Page 143
\'New cultural history\' and the eclipse of \'old social history\'?......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 161
C......Page 165
D......Page 166
F......Page 167
H......Page 168
L......Page 169
M......Page 170
P......Page 171
R......Page 172
U......Page 173
Notes......Page 174
Further Reading......Page 202
D......Page 213
K......Page 214
R......Page 215
Z......Page 216