Re-Figuration of Spaces as Long‐Term Social Change: The Methodological Potential of Comparative Historical Sociology for Cross-Cultural Comparison

Abstract: Analyzing social change from a historical perspective is one of the longest established strategies of sociological comparison. Numerous classic sociologists have examined cross-cultural (long-term) social change with a historical-comparative methodology in an effort to understand the differences and similarities of transformation processes in the present by reconstructing their past. As such, there are comprehensive historical-sociological preliminary works, which are intended as a means of analyzing the long-term and large-scale social change that is currently leading to a fundamental, worldwide restructuring of spatial orders, referred to as the re-figuration of spaces. Nevertheless, no one has applied the comparative methodology of historical sociology to the empirical analysis of the re-figuration of spaces so far. Instead, research on the re-figuration is currently restricted to research designs focused on the present. Therefore, I propose considering the methodological potent.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/3709

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Re-Figuration of Spaces as Long‐Term Social Change: The Methodological Potential of Comparative Historical Sociology for Cross-Cultural Comparison ; volume:22 ; number:2 ; day:27 ; month:05 ; year:2021 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 22, Heft 2 (27.05.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hergesell, Jannis

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-22.2.3709
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022011411445581854988
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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