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Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Stephen Kendrick
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  2. Pat Straw
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  3. David McCrone
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Part of the book series: Explorations in Sociology. (EIS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Sociology and History, the Past and the Present

    • The Editors
    Pages 1-8

  3. Future History

    • Charles Tilly
    Pages 9-19

  4. What is Sociological History?

    • Cynthia Hay
    Pages 20-37

  5. The Currency of History for Sociology

    • Gary Wickham
    Pages 38-58

  6. Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change

    • Brian Elliott
    Pages 59-82

  7. Social Change and Economic Life in Kirkcaldy, 1891–1987: Sources and Methods, a Historical Perspective

    • James J. Smyth
    Pages 83-99

  8. The Historical Reconstruction of Rural Localities: A New Zealand Case Study

    • Bob Hall
    Pages 100-121

  9. Urbanisation as Moral Project: Transitions in Twentieth Century Britain

    • Rosemary Mellor
    Pages 122-141

  10. Aye Tae the Fore: The Fife Miners in the 1984–85 Strike

    • Suzanne Najam
    Pages 142-164

  11. History and Sociology in the New Economic Sociology: A Discourse in Search of a Method

    • Roger Penn
    Pages 165-176

  12. Change and Continuity in History and Sociology: The Case of Industrial Paternalism

    • Harriet Bradley
    Pages 177-195

  13. Sub/contracting and Industrial Development

    • Ralph Fevre
    Pages 196-216

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 217-218
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The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier between the disciplines. This book examines the traffic across this frontier and in particular, what might be called the sociological uses of history.

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