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“These chains of events have cascading effects in that they both break and reproduce existing social formations - they are 'sequences of occurrences that result in the transformation of structures' (Sewell 2005: 227; also see: Mahoney and Schensul 2006).”
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“If Sewell was primarily discussing more ostensibly transformational events, I am indebted to his understanding (Sewell 2005, 219) of how ‘the action of culturally marking things in the world that, at least occasionally, transform[s] the meanings of the cultural markers and thereby reorients the…”
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“This body of research shows that ‘ historical events occurring during periods of structural social transformation are most likely to cause intense social emotions to erupt among various social groups, leading to collective creation and collective action ’ (Sewell, 2021, pp. 241 - 255).”
Talamayan, F., & Candelaria, J. (2026) · Asia Pacific Viewpoint · doi:10.1111/apv.70038
Intersectionality and identity salience over time: the case of Rose Pesotta and the Holocaust
Schachter, H. L. (2026) · Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal · doi:10.1108/edi-05-2025-0324
Maon, F., & Esper, S. C. (2026) · Management & Organizational History · doi:10.1080/17449359.2026.2625024
“In doing so, it helps correct a bias in historical approaches to management that have traditionally privileged elite histories at the over popular legacies (Maclean, Harvey, and Clegg 2016; see also Sewell 2005).”
Edwards-Grossi, E. (2026) · City & Community · doi:10.1177/15356841251414118
Tambar, K. (2026) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/738896
Space, Time and Borderlands History: Some Theoretical Reflections
Widdis, R. (2026) · Journal of Borderlands Studies · doi:10.1080/08865655.2026.2617223
Cultural Roots of Prejudice: Cultural Scripts and the Reactivation of Antisemitism in Germany
Kanol, E., & Schaub, M. (2026) · Perspectives on Politics · doi:10.1017/s1537592725103320
Rural matriarchs: hypogamy, kinship networks and female agency in 19th-century Frisia
Teunissen, B. (2026) · The History of the Family · doi:10.1080/1081602x.2026.2613994
“Sewell jr. (2005) pointedly stated that ‘agency characterises all persons (.)”
The 1857 Uprising: A Global Imperial Event?
Fermanis, P. (2026) · doi:10.2979/vic.00288
Maseko, T., Moodley, F., & Ferreira-Schenk, S. (2026) · International Journal of Research In Business and Social Science · doi:10.20525/ijrbs.v14i9.4597
Heinz, G. K., & Biket, A. P. (2026) · Histories · doi:10.3390/histories6010005
“This view is shared by Sewell (2005), who emphasizes the importance of ensuring the authenticity and continuity of the building’s originality within its socio-historical context in historical interpretation.”
Carbon societies’ past, present and future: History, crisis and social transformation
Skillington, T., Adloff, F., Mota, A., Aykut, S. C., & Wagner, P. (2025) · European Journal of Social Theory · doi:10.1177/13684310251406078
Omstedt, M. (2025) · Annals of the American Association of Geographers · doi:10.1080/24694452.2025.2580632
“If institutions have been described as “ machines for the production and maintenance of routines ” (Sewell 2005, 273), the difficult work of the Atlanta Bank was to reproduce the fraught link between the routines of the Southern financial system and a highly unpredictable cycle of agricultural…”
Schulz, M. (2025) · Journal of Critical Realism · doi:10.1080/14767430.2025.2591992
Toward a sociology of loss and life
Puri, J. (2025) · Critical Sociology · doi:10.1177/08969205251371289
“Much like modernity, which served both a descriptive and nomothetic role in sociology, analyzing suicide was as much an attempt to reflect on the social, cultural, and economic structures of industrialization as it was to establish generalizations or even social laws (Sewell, 2005: 3).”
Morgan, M. (2025) · Journal of Classical Sociology · doi:10.1177/1468795x251372147
“First, as a fickle consequence of some deeper change in an encompassing environment; an effect, typically, of macro political and economic causes that occur, as Sewell (2005: 91) puts it, ‘offstage’, where they act as ‘ever-present and ever-rising forces, a kind of eternal yeast’.”
Acosta, L. (2025) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.1177/00031224251371066
Syed, R., Silva, L., & Oladeji, O. (2025) · MIS Quarterly · doi:10.25300/misq/2025/18103
Küçüktüvek, M., & Örmecioğlu, H. T. (2025) · Kent Akademisi · doi:10.35674/kent.1605333
Wang, H. (2025) · International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies · doi:10.1080/29968992.2025.2559038
“As this research engages with this complex issue, which speaks to the enduring structure-agency debate (Sewell, 2005), the data show that Chinese trans youth’s reflections on passing express a desire to move beyond gendered boundaries themselves.”
Hegemony, Resistance, and the Cultural Turn: Revisiting the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies
Moore, R. (2025) · Critica Sociologica · doi:10.1177/08969205251361448
“Within the disciplines of history and sociology, the cultural turn suggests that institutions and practices are shaped by symbolic meanings and interpretive frames of perception (Alexander, 2021; Bonnell and Hunt, 1999; Cook et al., 2008; Friedland and Mohr, 2004; Sewell, 2005).”
The perils of technocratic power: central bank discretion and the end of Bretton Woods revisited
Sahasrabuddhe, A., & Seddon, J. (2025) · International Theory · doi:10.1017/s1752971925100092
Marketing space adventure toys and heroes, 1930s–1950s
Witkowski, T. H. (2025) · Journal of Historical Research in Marketing · doi:10.1108/jhrm-03-2025-0015
War toys: product history and public protest
Witkowski, T. H. (2025) · Consumption Markets & Culture · doi:10.1080/10253866.2025.2591383
“Compared to the behavioral sciences, history tends to keeps theoretical generalizations at arm’s length and instead addresses the particularity of its subject matter (Sewell 2005).”
Hussain, M. (2025) · Social science history · doi:10.1017/ssh.2025.21
“” Rather, their changing practices and outcomes were contingent on what the social theorist William Sewell called the “ conjuncture of structures ” (Sewell Jr. 2005: 82 – 114; Sahlins 1985; cf. Koselleck 2004).”
Capturing the Cold War Paradox
Wagner-Pacifici, R. (2025) · Social science history · doi:10.1017/ssh.2025.28
Shapes and functions of historical events
Assis, A. A. (2025) · Rethinking history · doi:10.1080/13642529.2025.2495422
Khaliyarov, A., & Misa, H. (2025) · Central Asian Survey · doi:10.1080/02634937.2025.2483318
“The Khivan case also provides an invitation to see climate as one factor within a general consensus of multi-factor and multi-scalar causality among historians and social scientists (Di Cosmo, Oppenheimer, and Büntgen 2017, 391; Mahoney 2003; Sewell 2005).”
Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust
NALEWAJKO, K. (2025) · American Political Science Review · doi:10.1017/s0003055424001345
Terry-Roisin, E. (2024) · Historical-Philological Journal · doi:10.1017/s0018246x24000499
The Double Disavowals of Theory's “Problem Spaces”: Review of Revolution and Disenchantment
Ali, N. B. (2024) · Boundary 2 · doi:10.1215/01903659-11394164
What kind of a theory is the medium durée?
Thornton, C. (2024) · Social science history · doi:10.1017/ssh.2024.43
Class plans and math education: what did the Covid-19 pandemic teach us?
dos Santos, D. M. A. D. A. P. (2024) · Revemop · doi:10.33532/revemop.e2024008
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships
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Cultural history: an interdisciplinary approach
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La Secuencia Perversa: del Absolutismo al Populismo y sus Giros Teóricos
Saguier, E. (2023) · Macrohistoria · doi:10.62120/mch.v1i4.38
“En un giro post secular y post normativo, Habermas (1998, 2005) descubrió que la religión se “desprivatizó” y se “desecularizó”, que en la fe religiosa cabe la racionalidad, y que la tolerancia religiosa durante la Ilustración (el Natán de Lessing de 1779) había sido precursora del derecho humano a…”
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Hadj-Moussa, R. (2023) · Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · doi:10.1215/1089201x-10896508
Strangely Hesitant about Anti-Blackness: A Comment on Quadlin and Montgomery (2022)
Oeur, F. B., & Robinson, C. C. (2023) · Social Psychology Quarterly · doi:10.1177/01902725231204877
“This focus is necessary because social science is preeminently concerned with the social , or the ‘‘inescapable ontological ground of our common life as humans’’ (Sewell 2005:369).”
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Palmer, J. (2023) · Studia Litteraria et Historica · doi:10.11649/slh.2817
Temporalities of Emancipation: Women, Work, and Time in 1970s America
Suarez, J. (2023) · Critical Historical Studies · doi:10.1086/726752
Economic Long Waves and Long Waves of Strikes in South Africa (1886–2022)
Cottle, E. (2023) · South African Review of Sociology · doi:10.1080/21528586.2023.2276922
Class structuration, reproduction, and the politics of labour in India
Strümpell, C. (2023) · Dialectical Anthropology · doi:10.1007/s10624-023-09697-6
Wagner, P. (2023) · Journal of Classical Sociology · doi:10.1177/1468795x231165649
Qian, L. (2023) · International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society · doi:10.1007/s10767-023-09443-4
Introduction: Conflict-Event Theory––a Proposed Paradigm
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The Sailing Scribes: Circulating Law in the Twentieth-Century Indian Ocean
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To Preserve the Struggle: Digitizing the Oregon Trail
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Historical Documents vs. the Archaeology: Lunette Blockades at Fort Bridger, Wyoming
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Protas, M. (2022) · Artistic Culture Topical Issues · doi:10.31500/1992-5514.18(1).2022.260421
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Kültürel Süreçlerin Toplumsal ve Eğitim Alanındaki Eşitsizliklerin Üretimindeki Rolü
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Thurston, T. L., & Fernández‐Götz, M. (2021) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009042826.014
Kienlin, T. L. (2021) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009042826.004
Afterword: Conversing with the Good Left about PRC History
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“There is an understandably strong desire for emancipatory visions and a feeling of profound repugnance with the notion that our histories might unconsciously, as William Sewell (2005) argued, abet, and that we would be “disarmed” before, powers and forces remaking the world for the dominant and destructive few.”
BackgroundInfluentialReflexivist Social Theory of Memory
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Toth, M. (2021) · European Memory and Conflicting Visions of the Past · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79843-7_1
Contributions to a Phenomenology of Historical Experience
Rossi, T. (2021) · The Southern Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1111/sjp.12442
Magnússon, S. G. (2021) · Understanding Disability Throughout History · doi:10.4324/9781003180180-3
“They take place within some specific structure which affect people’s actions in different ways (Sewell 2005, p. 143–145).”
Emotions history in China—Editor’s introduction
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Sumiala, J., Lounasmeri, L., & Lukyanova, G. (2021) · Media History · doi:10.1080/13688804.2021.1958671
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Self-deception, war, and the quest for the appropriate prophylactic
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“…in grant applications), I think William Sewell’s claim, made in 2005, that ‘the nature of these dialogues has been strongly shaped by the disciplinary cultures of the fields from which the scholars come’, still holds true, and provides a challenge that is not easily overcome (Sewell 2005).”
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Appendix A Drawing the Sample and Archival Sources
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.010
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.005
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.014
Appendix D Estimating the Frequency and Severity of Punishment in the Royal Navy
Pfaff, S., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.013
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.006
Discipline, Punishment and the Fear of Insurrection
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.007
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.015
Appendix B Predicting the Odds of Mutiny
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.011
Governance and Social Order in the Age of Sail
Pfaff, S. J., & Hechter, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108149853.003
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- Authors
- Sewell Jr., W. H.
- Venue
- University of Chicago Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005
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- Cited by
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- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Philosophy, History, and Historiography
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- Social Sciences › Education › Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
- Keywords
- historical reasoning, philosophy of history
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