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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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“Most academic historians yearn, as Gabrielle Spiegel (2009) put it in her 2008 Presidential Address to the American Historical Association (AHA), to ‘escape [the thrall of] language’ (Sewell 1999, 2005; Biernacki 2000; Partner 2009).”
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“Instead, they encountered “Unemployment, lower incomes, deteriorating housing stock, boarded up storefronts” which led to increasing attractiveness of criminal careers, widespread abuse of alcohol and drugs, and a rise in single-parent households” (Sewell Jr. 2005, p. 367).”
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“Attention to the material world and its temporalities requires a reconsideration of the conventional modes used to delimit the past along more familiar social, political, or cultural lines (Lucas 2012; Sewell 2005; Stahl 2010).”
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