Historical Sociology
Code
711081078
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Sociologia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Jorge Miguel Pedreira, Miguel Jerónimo
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. Understanding of the inherent historicity og the objct of sociology, so as to overcome the commonsense dichotomy of history as the science of particular and sociology as science of the general;
2. Knowledge and understanding of historical sociology´s main outlooks, namely, long term social change and comparative analysis;
3. A genetic undertsanding of modernities, underpinned by complex and historical sociological causality;
4. Ability to communicate historical sociological knowledge in an accurate and significant way.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Foundations of a historical sociology.
2. The construction of modernity(ies).
2.1. Modernity as an expansive Great Tradition. The fundamental premises of Western modernity and the \"multiple modernities\".
2.2. Capitalism.
2.2.1. The spirit of capitalism.
2.2.2. Markets and world-economies.
2.2.3. \"Industrial revolutions\", the \"great transformation\" and the role of states in building and regulating the social order of capitalism.
2.3. The state.
2.3.1. Rationalisation, bureaucratisation and the monopoly of legitimate coertion.
2.3.2. Modern state, political representation and class societies. Political revolutions.
2.3.3. The sociogenesis of the state.
2.3.4. Paths to political modernisation.
2.4. The nation and nationalisms.
2.4.1. Modernist theories: nation, nationalism and the modern state.
2.4.2. Sociopolitical chang and historical mutaions of nationalism.
2.4.3. Primordialist theories: the premodern genesis of national sentiment.
Bibliography
Abrams, P. (1982). Historical sociology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Barrington Moore Jr. (2010). As origens sociais da ditadura e da democracia. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Braudel, F. (1992). A dinâmica do capitalismo. Lisboa: Teorema.
Eisenstadt, S.N. (2007). Múltiplas modernidades: Ensaios. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.
Elias, N. (1989). O processo civilizacional: Investigações sociogenéticas e psicogenéticas. Vol 1. Lisboa: Presença.
Gellner, E. (1993). Nações e nacionalismo. Lisboa: Gradiva.
Hobsbawm, E. (2004). A questão do nacionalismo. Lisboa: Terramar.
Llobera, J.R. (2000). O Deus da modernidade: O desenvolvimento do nacionalismo na Europa occidental. Oeiras: Celta.
Polanyi, K. (2012). A grande transformação. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Skocpol, T. (1985). Estados e revoluções sociais: Análise comparativa da França, Rússia e China. Lisboa: Presença.
Weber, M. (1983). A ética protestante e o espírito do capitalismo. Lisboa: Presença.
Teaching method
Each syllabus topic is delt with in one up to three lectures, followed by or interpolated with two to four practical classroom work sessions. Each lecture is related to one or more recommended readings. Practical sessions work on the understanding, discussion, and oral and written articulation of knowlege derived from mandatory readings. They are paired around one of the mandatory readings, which is previously read by the students. The
first session is for the group discussion and schematic outline of the text´s argument, with the support of the professor. The second consists of a group written reply to a set of questions on the same text, with access to the text and the suport of the professor.
Evaluation method
Evaluation draws on the practical class exercises (average of the five best grades) (40%) and one final individual test written in class covering all the syllabus matters at rhe end of the term (60%) .