Comparative and Historical Sociology at the ASA

The Comparative and Historical Sociology section organized the following exciting events for the 2011 Annual Meeting of the ASA.

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Saturday, August 20; 6:30pm - 8:10pm
Joint Reception: Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology and Political Sociology
Location: Caesar's Palace

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Sunday, August 21; 8:30am - 10:10am
Pluralism and Methods in Comparative Historical Research
Session Organizer: Emily Anne Erikson

• Dan Lainer-Vos, "Comparative Actor-Network Theory? Gift, Investment, and the Making of Boundary Objects"
  
• Ryan A. Light, "Words to Networks: Digital Text, Computational Social Science, and the Case of Presidential Inaugural Speeches"
  
• James Mahoney, "Process Tracing: A Method for Evaluating Hypotheses in Particular Cases"
  
• Anna Katharina Skarpelis, "Toward a Comparative Semantics of Welfare States: Assessing Relationality in Discourses through Network Analysis"

Discussant: Isaac A. Reed

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Sunday, August 21; 10:30am - 12:10pm*
Council and Business Meetings

*Note that Council will meet for the first part of this session; the Business Meeting will convene at approximately 11:10am.

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Sunday, August 21; 12:30pm - 2:10pm
Roundtable Session
Session Organizer: Bart Bonikowski (Harvard)

Table 01. Intergroup Conflict
Table 02. Constructing National Identity
Table 03. Conceptualizing the State
Table 04. Processes of Political Change
Table 05. Civil Society and Political Participation
Table 06. Cultural Practices Across Time and Space

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Sunday, August 21; 2:30pm - 4:10pm
Empires and Civilizations
Session Organizer and Presider: Julian Go

• George Steinmetz, "Empires, Imperial States and Colonial Societies: Sociological Research and Theoretical Contributions, 1890s to the Present"
  
• Krishan Kumar, "The Roman Empire as a Model of Empires"
  
• Nicholas Hoover Wilson, "Corruption as State Formation in Early Colonial British India, 1757-1786"

Discussant: James Mahoney

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Monday, August 22; 8:30am - 10:10am
Islam and the Modern World
Session Organizer: Albert J. Bergesen

• Mounira Maya Charrad, "Patrimonial Politics: Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq"
  
• Danielle Kane and Ksenia O. Gorbenko, "States and Women's Rights in Central Asia"
  
• Md Saidul Islam, "Modern Environmentalism and Muslim Ecological Paradigm: Towards an Ontological Alliance"
  
• Sadia Saeed, "Hailing the 'Muslim' Citizen: National Identity and the State Field in Modern Pakistan"