Social Structure and the Genealogy of Change: The Transition to Capitalism in England and France - Softcover

Faruk Birtek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 6099602011 ISBN 13: 9786099602011

Publisher: VP Vilnius Academic Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

"This book is about constructing a theory of historical change. It develops a methodology for comparative historical sociology. As much as the god-loving, hard-working, entrepreneurial, penny pinching, in short, expansive impulse of the yeomen, it was the lack of resilience of society, the so-called feudal society that led to the enclosures, the parliament and eventual pluralism in England. In contrast, the French village was strongly shaped by the feudal relations which secured the peasant resilience in the face of the commercial impulses of the new capitalistic classes. The state could play the major roles in the opening new societal avenues and remedying the stillness of the new economic classes in the countryside. Our model suggests that the transitional stage in a process of transformation is governed by a see-saw between the organizational capacity of the new interests to expand and the resilience of the pre-existing institutions in resistance. Central to our model is the tenets of organizational sociology."

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About the Author

Faruk Birtek was born in Istanbul. He studied Economics at Cambridge and Sociology at Berkeley. He taught at the universities of Yale and Boğaziçi. He was a visiting faculty at Bielefeld (Germany) and Michigan (Ann Arbor). He was a senior visiting fellow at Collegium Budapest in 2012. Currently he is a Professor Emeritus at Boğaziçi University.

Edition details

• Publisher: VP Vilnius Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 6099602011
• ISBN 13: 9786099602011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424