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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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“Interrogating the paradoxes and hidden assumptions behind definitions makes historical change visible in all its multilayered and multidimensional aspects (Sewell 2005: 10– 11).”
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“Most social scientists would agree that organizational contexts consist of rules that organize experience and action (Giddens 1986; Mead 1934; Sewell 1992; 2005:chap.”
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“1 I do suggest two additional senses in which structures might be regarded as multiple (Sewell 2005: 208–9).”
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“Di ff erent to teleological and experimental temporality, eventful temporality sees social causality as temporally heterogeneous, emphasising the potential of events in transforming social structures (Sewell 2005).”
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“This argument is best understood when network evolution is analyzed at its lowest possible level of observation––that is, in terms of relational events (Brandes et al., 2009) interpreted as: “sequences of occurrences that result in transformations of structures” (Sewell, 2005, p.227).”
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“Attention to time and temporalities comes to the fore, illuminating past, present and projected futures (Hernes, 2014; Sewell, 2005).”
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“Consider books like Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences (Luker, 2008) , Time Matters (Abbott, 2001), A Tale of Two Cultures (Goertz and Mahoney, 2012) , Logics of History (Sewell, 2005) , Counterfactuals and Causal Inference (Morgan and Winship, 2007) , and The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences (Steinmetz, 2…”
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“Modernization theory’s view of history is therefore one of a non-contingent process of social evolution which is not driven by specific actions and contexts, but governed by a transhistorical logic leading to a goal known in advance (cf. Sewell, 2005: 83–4).”
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“Here, instead, we look to how turning points puncture these trajectories with reference to individual behavior (Abbott 2001; Sendroiu 2022; Sewell 2005; Wagner-Pacifici 2017).”
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“If anything, ‘societies are based on practices that derive from many distinct structures, which exist at different levels, operate in different modalities, and are themselves based on widely varying types and quantities of resources’ (Sewell 2005, 140).”
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“…analysis shows similarities with actor-centred approaches in heritage studies, although the strength of the former tradition is its more sophisticated conceptualisation of the ways in which institutional histories and path dependencies shape future trajectories (Pierson 2004, Sewell 2005).”
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“Historians have repeatedly attacked social scientists for either ignoring or misusing the past, while social scientists have critiqued historians’ tendency to eschew claims regarding the general relevance of their studies (see, for example, Abrams 1982; Burke 1992; Sewell 2005).”
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- Sewell Jr., W. H.
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