New directions in formalization and historical analysis

Theory and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 133-160

  Franzosi, Roberto ^a   Mohr, John W ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0009154927     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006879920010     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. On this issue, See C. Tilly, As Sociology Meets History (New York: Academic Press, 1981);
2. P. Abrams, Historical Sociology (Near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England: Open Books, 1982);
3. A. Abbott, "History and Sociology: The Lost Synthesis," Social Science History 15 (1991): 201-238;
4. R. Franzosi, "A sociologist meets history. Critical reflections upon practice," The Journal of Historical Sociology 9 (1996): 354-392.
5. Schlesinger quickly pointed out that the humanist "does not deny the value of the quantitative method. What he denies is that it can handle everything which the humanist must take into account; what he condemns is the assumption that things which quantitative methods can't handle don't matter." A. Schlesinger, "The Humanist Looks at Empirical Social Research," American Sociological Review 27 (1962): 768-771, 770.
6. "The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History," Past and Present 85 (1979): 3-24.
7. J. Morgan Kousser offered a point by point reply in "The Revivalism of Narrative," Social Science History 8 (1981): 133-149.
8. See also, C. Ginzburg, "Roots of a Scientific Paradigm," Theory and Society 1 (1979): 273-288;
9. G. R. Elton, "Two Kinds of History," in R. Fogel and G. R. Elton, Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History (New Haven: Yale University Press 1983), 71-121, 80;
10. L. Stone, The Past and the Present Revisited (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987), 36;
11. B. Bailyn, "The Challenge of Modern Historiography," American Historical Review 87 (1982): 1-24, 9.
12. B. Bailyn, "The Challenge of Modern Historiography," 6.
13. W. O. Aydelotte, "Quantification in History," in D. K. Rowney and J. Q. Graham, editors, Quantitative History: Selected Readings in the Quantitative Analysis of Historical Data (Homewood, Ill.: The Dorsey Press, 1969), 3-22, 21.