The Sociology of the State (Chicago Original Paperbacks)
Badie, Bertrand; Birnbaum, Pierre
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1983
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- Softcover
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- Title
- The Sociology of the State (Chicago Original Paperbacks)
- Author
- Badie, Bertrand; Birnbaum, Pierre
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226035492
- ISBN 13
- 9780226035499
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- political science, sociology
Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned to jurists and political scientists, the authors lay the foundations for a strikingly original theory of the birth and subsequent diffusion of the state.
The book opens with a review of the principal evolutionary theories concerning the origin of the institution proposed by such thinkers as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Rejecting these views, the authors set forward and defend their thesis that the state was an "invention" rather than a necessary consequence of any other process. Once invented, the state was disseminated outside its Western European birthplace either through imposition or imitation. The study concludes with concrete analyses of the differences in actual state institutions in France, Prussia, Great Britain, the United States, and Switzerland.
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About the Author
Pierre Birnbaum is visiting professor of Jewish studies at Columbia University. A number of his works and edited collections have been published in English, including Anti-Semitism in Modern France, The Jews of the Republic, and Paths for Emancipation.
Arthur Goldhammer is an award-winning translator who has translated books by Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean Starobinski.
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