Număr de credite: 3
Cod: ALR3409
Predare: curs 2h
Limba de predare: Română
Tip: curs opțional, licență, Antropologie, Sociologie
1 Introducere
2. Discutam textul: Mann, Michael. 1994. “In Praise of Macro-Sociology: A Reply to Goldthorpe.” British Journal of Sociology 45:37–54.
3. Sa citim un istoric contemporan. Geary, Patrick J. 2021. Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium. Princeton University Press. Introduction, pag.3-22
4. Mahoney, James, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. 2012. “Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas.” Pp. 3–38 in Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
5. Un studiu exemplar: Mann, Michael. 2003. Incoherent Empire. London ; Verso, capitolul „The military giant,” p 18-49
6. Inapoi la teorie: Ragin, Charles C. 2014. The Comparative Method : Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies : With a New Introduction / Charles Ragin. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, cap. 1 The distinctiveness of comparative social science, pag 1-18.
7. Un clasic: Skocpol, Theda. 1979. States and Social Revolutions : A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China / Theda Skocpol. Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press., cititi p. 3-43
8. O analiza exemplara – Tilly, Charles. 1984. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. Russell Sage Foundation. citi paginile: 10-15, 60-65, 74-91
9. Despre comparatii: Skocpol, Theda, and Margaret Somers. 1980. “The Uses of History in Macrosocial Inquiry.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22:174–97
10. O perspectiva prin prisma metodelor cantitative: Western, Bruce. 1995. “A Comparative Study of Working-Class Disorganization: Union Decline in Eighteen Advanced Capitalist Countries.” American Sociological Review 60(2):179–201.
11. O comparatie istorica: Anderson, Perry. 2013. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso, cap. 2 „Class and state, problems of periodization” pag. 43-59
12. Sa ne aplecam asupra unui fenomen romanesc: Mann, Michael. 2004. Fascists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, capitolul 8 „The Romanian Family of Authoritarians”
13. Brubaker, Rogers, and Margit Feischmidt. 2002. “1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.” Comparative Studies in Society and History – 44 (04)
14. Muno, Wolfgang, and Christian Pfeiffer. Populism in Power—A Comparative Analysis of Populist Governance. SAGE, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659221120067.
Obligatorie (suport de curs):
Anderson, Perry. Lineages of the Absolutist State. London: Verso, 2013.
Brubaker, Rogers, and Margit Feischmidt. “1848 in 1998: The Politics of Commemoration in Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 44, no. 4 (2002).
Geary, Patrick J. Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millennium. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Mahoney, James, and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. “Comparative Historical Analysis: Achievements and Agendas.” In Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, 3–38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Mann, Michael. “In Praise of Macro-Sociology: A Reply to Goldthorpe.” British Journal of Sociology 45 (1994): 37–54.
Mann, Michael. Incoherent Empire. London: Verso, 2003.
Mann, Michael. Fascists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Maynes, Mary Jo. Taking the Hard Road: Life Course in French and German Workers’ Autobiographies in the Era of Industrialization. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Ragin, Charles C. The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Skocpol, Theda. States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Skocpol, Theda, and Margaret Somers. “The Uses of History in Macrosocial Inquiry.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22 (1980): 174–97.
Tilly, Charles. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1984.
Western, Bruce. “A Comparative Study of Working-Class Disorganization: Union Decline in Eighteen Advanced Capitalist Countries.” American Sociological Review 60, no. 2 (1995): 179–201.
Suplimentară:
Berger, Brigitte. Societies in Change : An Introduction to Comparative Sociology. Basic Books, 1971.
Sasaki, Masamichi S. New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology. 1st ed., Brill, 2009.
Curs
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Obiectivul general al disciplinei: Disciplina își propune să ofere studenților o înțelegere aprofundată a proceselor macro-sociale printr-o perspectivă comparativă și istorică, analizând formarea, transformarea și interacțiunea structurilor sociale majore. Cursul urmărește dezvoltarea capacității de a interpreta fenomenele sociale contemporane prin raportare la dinamici istorice și contexte socio-politice diferite
Obiectivele specifice: Familiarizarea studenților cu principalele teorii, concepte și abordări metodologice din macro-sociologia comparată și sociologia istorică.
Dezvoltarea abilității de analiză comparativă a societăților și sistemelor sociale în contexte istorice distincte.
Stimularea gândirii critice prin aplicarea perspectivelor macro-sociologice la studii de caz relevante.

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