Can historical sociology be critical?

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Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 391-413

  Hobden, Stephen ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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1. I would like to thank Ian Clarke, John Hall, John Hobson, Andrew Linklater, and Adam Morton for their comments on an earlier draft of this article.
2. Jim George, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to International Relations (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1994), ch. 3.
3. Especially for the "English" schools. "Historical" as opposed to "scientific" approaches to the study of international relations were also the subject of the so-called second great debate. See H. Bull, "The Case for a Classical Approach," World Politics 18 (1966): 361-377;
4. M. A. Kaplan, "The New Great Debate: Traditionalism vs. Science in International Relations," World Politics 19 (1966): 1-20.
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10. See Philip Abrams, Historical Sociology (Shepton Mallet, UK: Open Books, 1982);
11. Dennis Smith, The Rise of Historical Sociology (Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
12. See F. Halliday, "State and Society in International Relations: A Second Agenda," Millennium 16 (1987): 215-230;
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14. A. Jarvis, "Societies, States, and Geopolitics: Challenges from Historical Sociology," Review of International Studies 15 (1989): 281-293.
15. Andrew Linklater, The Transformation of Political Community: Ethical Foundations of the Post-Westphalian Era (Oxford: Polity, 1998), p. 5.
16. The approaches of historical sociologists to the analysis of international relations are discussed in Stephen Hobden, International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries (London: Routledge, 1998);
17. "Theorising the International System: Perspectives from Historical Sociology," Review of International Studies 25 (1999): 257-271.
18. Michael Smith, Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986), ch. 2;
19. Jim George, Discourses of Global Politics: A Critical (Re)Introduction to Internatonal Relations, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1994), pp. 20-21;
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23. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Ibid., p. 129 (emphasis in original).
24. Max Weber, Economy and Society, (New York: Bedminster, 1968), p. 56.
25. Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
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28. Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, 1993).
29. Skocpol, note 18, p. 29.
30. Ibid., p. 31.
31. Tilly, note 20, p. 1.
32. Ibid., p. 96.
33. Mann, note 21, vol. 2, ch. 3.
34. Ibid., p. 55.
35. Ibid., p. 56 (emphasis in original).
36. Ibid., p. 75.
37. Skocpol, note 18, p. 154.
38. See, with reference to France, Skocpol, note 18, p. 189; Theda Skocpol, "Reconsidering the French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective," Social Research 56 (1989): 53-70, at 61;
39. and more generally Skocpol, "Social Revolutions and Mass Military Mobilization," World Politics 40 (1988): 147-168.
40. Tilly, note 19, p. 42.
41. Tilly, note 20, p. 14.
42. Ibid., p. 5.
43. Ibid., pp. 58-59.
44. Ibid., p. 30.
45. Ibid., p. 76.
46. There is not space here to discuss Mann's account of the sources of social power. See Mann, note 21, vol. 1, ch. 1; Stephen Hobden, "Geopolitical Space or Civilisation? The International System in the Work of Michael Mann," International Relations 12 (1995): 77-101.
47. Mann, note 21, vol. 1, p. 511.
48. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 504; see also ch. 11.
49. Robert W. Cox, "Social Forces, States, and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory," in Robert O. Keohane, ed., Neorealism and Its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp. 204-254, p. 208.
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53. Cox, note 41, p. 208
54. See Michael Mann, "Socio-Logic," Sociology 15 (1981): 544-550;
55. Michael Mann, "In Praise of Macro-Sociology: A Reply to Goldthorpe," British Journal of Sociology 45 (1994): 37-51;
56. Theda Skocpol, "Sociology's Historical Imagination," in Theda Skocpol, ed., Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 1-21;
57. Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research," in Evans, Rueschemeyer, and Skocpol, note 43, pp. 3-43;
58. Skocpol, "Explaining Social Revolutions: First and Further Thoughts," in Skocpol, ed., Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 3-22;
59. Charles Tilly, As Sociology Meets History (New York: Academic, 1981);
60. Tilly, Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons (New York: Russell Sage, 1984).
61. Linklater, note 11.
62. Mann, note 21, vol. 1, p. 376; John G. Ruggie, "Continuity and Transformation in the World Polity: Toward a Neorealist Synthesis," in Keohane, note 41, pp. 131-157.
63. Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan, Border Identities: Nation and State at International Frontiers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 5.
64. Barry Hindess, Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996), p. 158.