Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science

Critical juncture analysis has been used to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change over the past 50 years. This book offers the first coordinated effort to define the field, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and guide its future. Contributors include stars and rising stars of the field.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 520 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Critical juncture analysis has been used by scholars across the social sciences for over 50 years to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first coordinated effort to define this field of research, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current practices as a basis for guiding its future. Contributors include stars in this field who have written some of the classic works on critical junctures, as well as the rising stars of the next generation who will continue to shape historical comparative analysis for years to come. Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies will be an indispensable resource for social science research methods scholars and students.

Weight: 718g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538166154