RC 56:
historical sociology, RC 57: visual sociology), we now also have poetic sociology, cultural sociology, analytic sociology, and public sociology with more general ambitions.
Saeed displays a mastery of
historical sociology and political theory.
The second major theme involves using
historical sociology to help rethink and recentre the contemporary moment: "I mine our current understandings of nineteenth and early twentieth-century working-class history--the fruit of hundreds if not thousands of studies since 1960--to highlight the conditions and forms of struggle through which class capacities were created and the socialist project organized itself' (21).
Chapter 8 concludes the book by contending that it is paramount to rebuild a
historical sociology of asylum to understand how "dehumanisation is possible by the state even in the post-racial policy language of the contemporary moment" (179).
This quibble aside, England's Great Transformation is a fascinating and thought-provoking work of
historical sociology.
Main chapters of the book are true to what is stated in the introduction: "The body of this book follows a broadly historical-thematic structure, utilising
historical sociology to illuminate the struggle between the two leading social movements in the Arab world.
Mishal Khan, a PhD candidate whose research work focuses on
historical sociology, colonial law and slavery in South Asia, spoke about the need to open up and explore the history of Sindh against the backdrop of Pakistan, which was also part of the subcontinent.
The Power Triangle offers a
historical sociology account of power relations during times of regime stability and change.
In 2014, Krisztian Gergely Horvath (of the Department of
Historical Sociology at ELTE University) edited a volume on water and society in Hungary over the last millennium.