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Comparative Historical Workshop (484-0-20)

Instructors

Ann Shola Orloff
847/491-3719
1808 Chicago Ave. Rm. 201
Ann Shola Orloff is Professor of Sociology and Political Science; Board of Lady Managers of the Colombian Exposition Chair. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an A.B. from Harvard University. Orloff’s research and publications focus on states, gendered social policies and feminist politics in the rich capitalist democracies; social theory; and historical, comparative and global social science. Orloff is the co-editor of Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology and is now working on a manuscript, Farewell to Maternalism, Toward a Gender-Open Future? Transformations in Gender, Employment and Social Policies in the US and Sweden. She has served as Director of Gender Studies Program and Chair of the Sociology Department. She is past President of the Social Science History Association and the International Sociological Association Research Committee 19 (Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy).

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 222: Fri 3:00PM - 4:30PM

Overview of class

Comparative-historical sociology involves the examination of social structures and events across societies and historical time. In its simplest form, parallel events or social structures in two societies are examined. In its more complex variants, a range of similarities and differences across many societies may be studied. The goal of comparative-historical sociology is to unite differences and similarities in a single, comprehensive framework in order to make sense of diversity in social forms and historical outcomes.