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THE PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

The Individual as Homo-Sociologicus through Society and History

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THE PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

The Individual as Homo-Sociologicus through Society and History

BY

JIŘÍ ŠUBRT

Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague, Czech Republic

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Reviewers

Prof. Dennis Smith, Loughborough University

Prof. Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University

Dr. Massimiliano Ruzzeddu, University N. Cusano in Rome

Acknowledgments

This book is the culmination of my longstanding labor in the field of historical sociology. My approach within this has been accompanied by a number of scholars who have helped me research and establish my orientation. At the very beginning, during my studies at the Charles University in Prague at the turn of the 1980s, these included my teacher Eduard Urbanek. Later, in the 1990s, when I began to get acquainted with the work of Norbert Elias, I was very much helped by Hermann Korte, who at that time worked at the University of Hamburg. Of great importance to my professional development too were repeated study visits at the University of Vienna spent alongside Reinhold Knoll, at the University of Konstanz alongside Bernhard Giesen, and at the Free University of Berlin alongside Harald Wenzel. My approach to historical sociology has been associated with my interest in time, in which context I associated with Patrick Baert of Cambridge University, who greatly influenced me with his concept of temporalized sociology. Johann Pal Arnason and Willfried Spohn have played key roles in my direction in the last decade, and with their help and support I founded the Department of Historical Sociology at Charles University in Prague and designed the content of the study program taught since 2009. Last but not least, I cannot forget Prof. Dennis Smith from Loughborough University, whom I have consulted on many topics over the past few years. The book I present here to the reader would not have been written without the help of Martin Tharp, a doctoral student of historical sociology, and the long-term cooperation of my friend, proofreader, and language advisor Edward Everett. In addition, this book represents one of the outputs of the Homo sociologicus revisited project (No.: 15-14478S), financially supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic GACR. I would also like to express my thanks to the representatives of Emerald Publishing for their friendly assistance in guiding this book to the light of publication.