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Sociology 263 Historical Sociology: Cultural and Institutional Perspectives Spring Term 2012 Sociology 263 Historical Sociology: Cultural and Institutional Perspectives Spring Term 2012 Instructor: Orlando Patterson William James Hall rm. 601 John Cowles Professor of Sociology First class Friday, January 27: 10—12 Thereafter Wednesdays 12.00‐2.00 William James Hall 520 Catalog Number: 82536 Phone: 617‐495‐3812 This seminar examines the interacting roles of culture and institutions in the origins, development and consequences of capitalism in Western, advanced Non‐Western and colonial societies. Our readings and discussions will be guided by the recurring theoretical problems of causality, origins, continuity and change in institutional and cultural processes. Among the topics explored are cultural and institutional factors in the formation of states and in the changing meanings of money; in explaining the rise of capitalism in the West and the underdevelopment of post‐colonial societies, especially Africa; in the historical constructions of race, gender and sexuality; and in the role of sports in imperial hegemony and the resistance of subaltern peoples. Requirements: In addition to regular attendance and participation in seminar discussions, the only requirements are 4 reflections on the readings, one on each part of the syllabus, each between 4 ‐ 5 double‐spaced pages in length (but no longer!) Reflections are due: Wed. Feb 15; March 21; April 11; and May 2nd. PART 1. INTRODUCTION & THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Week 1: Friday, Jan. 27 [Note change to Wednesday beginning Feb 1st]: Introduction: The Cultural (Re) turn in Historical Sociology Charles Tilly, “Historical Sociology,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1999). http://professor‐murmann.info/tilly/2001_Historical_Soc.pdf Victoria Bonnell & Lynn Hunt, Beyond the Cultural Turn. Introduction and Chapter 1 (in binder). Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens and Ann Orloff, “Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology,” in their edited volume, Remaking Modernity (in binder). P. Temin, “Is it Kosher to Talk about Culture?” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 57, No. 2 (1997). 1 Week 2: WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1: Approaches to the Problem of Culture in Historical Explanation John R. Hall, “Cultural Meanings and Cultural Structures in Historical Explanation,” History and Theory, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Oct., 2000), pp. 331‐347. Anne Kane, “Reconstructing Culture in Historical Explanation: Narratives as Cultural Structure and Practice,” History and Theory, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Oct., 2000), pp. 311‐330. Richard Biernacki, “Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry,” History and Theory, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Oct., 2000), pp. 289‐310. Chris Lorenz, “Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry,” History and Theory, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Oct., 2000), pp. 348‐363. Recommended: Orlando Patterson, “Culture and Continuity: Causal Structures in Socio‐Cultural Persistence” in John Mohr and Roger Friedland et al., eds., Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice. Cambridge University Press (July 2004).[in binder] Week 3: Wednesday, Feb. 8: Culture and Institutions in Historical Explanation Paul Pierson, “The Limits of Design: Explaining Institutional Origins and Change,” Governance, Vol.13, No. 4 (2000), pp. 476‐499. David Dequech, “Cognitive and Cultural Embeddedness: Combining Institutional Economics and Economic Sociology,” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2 (2003). Greif, A., “Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 102, No. 5 (October 1994). Recommended: Douglass North, Institutions, Institutional Change & Economic Performance. Introduction & chapters 4‐5.[in binder] 2 PART 2: CULTURE IN THE HISTORY OF STATES AND MARKETS Week 4: Wednesday, Feb. 15: Political Rituals in French State Formation George Steinmetz, ed., State/Culture: State Formation After the Cultural Turn. Introduction (in binder). Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution. Introduction, chapters 1‐3 & 6, and Conclusion. Anne Kane, “Cultural Analysis in Historical Sociology: The Analytic and Concrete Forms of the Autonomy of Culture,” Sociological Theory, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1091), pp. 53‐69. Recommended: J.C. Sharman, “Culture, Strategy, and State‐Centered Explanations of Revolution, 1789 & 1989,” Social Science History: Vol. 27, No. 1 (2003), pp. 1‐24. Week 5: Wednesday, Feb. 22: Aesthetic Rituals in Japanese State Formation Eiko Ikegamki, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture. Chapters 1 & 9; Section 2; & Conclusion. Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process. Pp. 47‐52; 138‐152; 356‐382 (in binder). Anne Walthal, “Networking for Pleasure and Profit,” Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 61, No. 1 (2006), pp. 93‐103. Week 6: Wednesday, Feb. 29: Culture, Patriarchal Power and the Institution of the Family Julia Adams, The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe, Introduction, chapters 1 & 3, and conclusion. Avner Greif, “Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations,” AEA Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 96, No. 2. Recommended: Wally Seccombe, “The Western European Marriage Pattern in Historical Perspective: A Response to David Levine,” Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 3, No.1 (March 1990), 50­74. 3 Week 7: Wednesday, Mar. 7: Culture, Money & the Changing Valuation of Human Life Viviana Zelizer, “Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th‐ Century America,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 84 (November 1978), pp. 591‐610. Viviana Zelizer, “The Price and Value of Children: The Case of Children’s Insurance,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 86 (March 1981), pp. 1036‐56. Viviana Zelizer, “The Social Meaning of Money: ‘Special Monies’,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 95 (September 1989), pp. 342‐77. Viviana Zelizer, “Fine Tuning the Zelizer View.” Economy and Society, Vol. 29 (August 2000), 383‐89. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy, “Moral Views of Market Society,” Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 33 (2007), pp. 285‐311. *March 14, Spring Break* PART 3: CULTURE, INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC CHANGE Week 8: Wednesday, Mar. 21; Culture and Institutions in the Development of Europe & China Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, “The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3 (2005), pp. 546‐579. Avner Greif and Guido Tabellini, “Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China & Europe Compared,” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 100, No. 2 (2010), pp. 1‐10. Douglass North and B Weingast, “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth Century England,” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 4 (1989), pp. 803‐32. Week 9: Wednesday, Mar. 28: Culture, Institutions and & the Legacies of Colonialism Daron Acemoglu, S. Johnson & J. Robinson, “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, Vol. 91 (2001), pp. 1369‐1401. Sokoloff, Kenneth L, and Stanley L. Engerman, “History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2000), pp. 217–32. 4 Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff, “Factor Endowments, Inequality and Paths of Development among New World Economies,” Working Papers 9259, National Bureau of Economic Research (2002). http://www.nber.org/papers/w9259.pdf Paul Pierson, “Path Dependence, Increasing Returns, and the Study of Politics,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 2 (June 2000), pp. 251‐67. Recommended: Paul Pierson, “Not Just What, but When: Timing and Sequence in Political Processes,” Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2000), pp.73‐93. Week 10: Wednesday,, Apr. 4: Did Europe Underdevelop Africa? Nathan Nunn, “The Long‐Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades,” Quarterly Journal of Economics,” (2008). Pierre Englebert, “Pre‐Colonial Institutions, Post‐Colonial States and Economic Development in Tropical Africa,” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 53 (2000), pp. 7‐36. Graziella Bertocchi and Fabiol Canova, “Did Colonization Matter for Growth? An Empirical Exploration into the Historical Causes of Africa’s Underdevelopment,” European Economic Review, Vol. 46 (2002), pp. 1851‐1871. Recommended: Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Preface and chapters 4‐6. http://www.blackherbals.com/walter_rodney.pdf PART 4: HIERARCHIES & CULTURE: “RACE,” CASTE & GENDER Week 11: Wednesday, Apr. 11: Approaches to the Cultural & Historical Sociology of Race/Ethnicity & Caste Howard Winant, The World is a Ghetto. Part 1 & Conclusion. Chris Smaje, Natural Hierarchies. Chapters 1, 4 & 5. Orlando Patterson, “Four Modes of Ethno‐Somatic Stratification,” in Glenn Loury et al., Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy, Chapter 2. [in binder] Recommended: George M. Fredrickson, Racism: A short History. Introduction and chapters 1‐3. 5 Week 12: Wednesday, Apr. 18: Race, Gender, And Sexuality in Imperial Culture Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 6. Trevor Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo‐ Jamaican World. Introduction, (binder, or http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/241).Michel
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