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"This book is a history of the field of sociology as it existed from the interwar, wartime, and postwar periods in France and its Empire. This does not refer just to sociologists who did some work in the colonies, or occasionally thought about them in their metropolitan work, but a specific field which was constituted to understand and then govern these colonies. The author argues that the re-founding of French sociology during and after World War II - which spawned the likes of Raymond Aron, Jacques Berque, Georges Balandier, and Pierre Bourdieu - occurred within the context of the re-founding of the French empire. Though there was been much discussion of "decolonizing" sociology in the postwar period, the deep history of sociology's connection to French colonialism and empire has been ignored when, the author argues, it is central. The main driver of the expansion of sociology in this period was colonial developmentalism. Sociologists became favored partners of colonial governments, applying their expertise to an array of "social problems," such as de-tribalization, poverty, labor migration, rapid urbanization and the growth of shantytowns, and the decay of traditional families and religious beliefs, and working on "modernizing" solutions. Many sociologists whose careers began in the overseas colonies formulated concepts and theories that quickly entered metropolitan (and then global) sociology, and their origins were forgotten. Steinmetz examines the ways in colonial sociologists differed from the rest of the discipline -in many ways they represented its most dynamic cutting edge-and how their locations may have affected their intellectual agendas and scholarship. He explores the ways in which these sociologists networked and tracks their major intellectual innovations and influence as a group. He also explores the marginalization faced by both sociologists working in the colonies and those born there, while showing the ways in which they were able to overcome them. The specific challenges of colonial sociology-including some very strongly anticolonial colonial sociologists-shaped sociological theory in ways that are still dominant. The book amounts to a historical sociology of French academia all told-with an emphasis on sociology and other human sciences-as well as a collective biography of many of the major figures, many who are continually read and cited to this day"--

Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Culture and the State -- PART ONE: State/Culture: Theoretical Approaches -- 1. "Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field -- 2. "Society, Economy, and the State Effect -- 3. "Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State-Formation -- 4. "The Changing Cultural Content of the Nation-State: A World Society Perspective -- PART TWO: Culture and Early Modern State-Formation -- 5. "Calvinism and State-Formation in Early Modern Europe -- 6. "Nationalism, Universal Monarchy, and the Glorious Revolution -- PART THREE: Culture and the Modernization/Westernization of Non-European States -- 7. "The Subvention of Tradition: A Genealogy of the Nigerian Durbar -- 8. "Revolution and State Culture: The Circle of Justice and Constitutionalism in 1906 Iran -- PART FOUR: Culture and the Modern Western State -- 9. "The Cultural Elements of Ethnically Mixed States: Nationality Re-formation in the Soviet Successor States -- 10. "Motherhood, Work, and Welfare in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia -- 11. "Political Belonging: Emotion, Nation, and Identity in Fascist Italy -- 12. "Narrating the Future of the National Economy and the National State: Remarks on Remapping Regulation and Reinventing Governance -- Epilogue: Now Where? -- Index -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z

Germany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange.Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil's Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross-cultural analysis of German colonial

Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions, and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social programs? How are elite and popular conceptions of social reality related to welfare policies? George Steinmetz approaches these and other issues by exploring the complex origins and development of local and national social policies in nineteenth-century Germany. Generally regarded as the birthplace of the modern welfare state, Germany experimented with a wide variety of social programs before 1914, including the national social insuran

Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions, and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social programs? Why is social spending generous in some places and miserly in others? How are elite and popular conceptions of social reality related to welfare policies? George Steinmetz approaches these and other issues by exploring the complex origins and development of local and national social policies in nineteenth-century Germany. Generally regarded as the birthplace of the modern welfare state, Germany experimented with a wide variety of social programs before 1914, including the national social insurance legislation of the 1880s, the "Elberfeld" system of poor relief, protocorporatist policies, and modern forms of social work. Looking at changes in welfare policy over the course of the nineteenth century, differences between state and municipal interventions, and intercity variations in policy, Steinmetz develops an account that focuses on the specific constraints on local and national policymakers and the different ways of imagining the "social question." Whereas certain aspects of the pre-1914 welfare state reinforced social divisions and even foreshadowed aspects of the Nazi regime, other dimensions actually helped to relieve sickness, poverty, and unemployment. Steinmetz explores the conditions that led to both the positive and the objectionable features of social policy. The explanation draws on statist, Marxist, and social democratic perspectives, theories of gender and culture, and the work of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Tilly

Estudos de caso e "comparações com amostras pequenas" têm sido atacados por duas frentes, a positivista e a incomensurabilista. Ao mesmo tempo, alguns autores têm defendido comparações com amostras pequenas como forma de permitir que os pesquisadores qualitativos atingissem certo grau de cientificidade, ainda que que tenham rejeitado o estudo de caso como meramente "ideográfico". Os partidários do estudo de caso, às vezes, concordam com estas críticas, rejeitando todas as reivindicações à cientificidade. Um conjunto de discordâncias relacionadas ao tema diz respeito ao papel e à natureza da teoria social na sociologia, que, às vezes, é descrita como inútil e parasitária e, outras vezes, como evoluindo em um emblemático isolamento em relação à pesquisa empírica. Essas três formas de atividade sociológica – análise comparativa, estudos de casos individuais e teoria social – são defendidas aqui a partir do ponto de vista do realismo crítico. Neste artigo eu primeiro reconstruo, com base em traços amplos, a estrutura epistemológica e ontológica dominante na sociologia dos EUA no pós-guerra. As próximas duas seções discutem várias críticas positivistas e incomensurabilistas dirigidas à comparação e aos estudos de caso. As últimas duas seções propõem uma compreensão da comparação como operando ao longo de duas dimensões, eventos e estruturas, e oferece uma ilustração da diferença e da relação entre os dois.