Comparative Sociology: Putting Societies in Perspective
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 2SC208
Main group 1
- Adams, Julia; Clemens, Elisabeth Stephanie; Orloff, Ann Shola, Remaking modernity: politics, history, and sociology, Durham, Duke University Press, 2005Compulsory (Adams, Julia, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann S. Orloff. 2005. “Introduction: Social Change, Modernity, and the Three Waves of Historical Sociology.” Pp. 1–72)
- Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, London, Verso, 1983Compulsory (Selections, 50 p.)
- Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, Cambridge, Polity, 1990Compulsory (Selections, 50 p.)
- Evans, Peter B.; Rueschemeyer, Dietrich; Skocpol, Theda, Bringing the state back in, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985Compulsory (Selections, 75 p.)
- Gorski, Philip S., The disciplinary revolution: Calvinism and the rise of the state in early modern Europe, Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 2003Compulsory (Selections, 50 p.)
- Markoff, John, Waves of democracy: social movements and political change, Thousand Oaks, Calif., Pine Forge Press, 1996Compulsory (Selections, 50 p.)
- Mudge, Stephanie L., Leftism reinvented: Western parties from socialism to neoliberalism, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2018Compulsory (Selections, 75 p.)
Additional literature in the form of articles and book excerpts will be added (appr. 400p)
* Compulsory