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William Sewell |
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| Major Areas of Interest: | - Social Theory; - Comparative Politics; - Culture and Politics; - French History. |
| Selected Publications: | - A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abb Sieyes and What is the Third Estate?; - Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848; - "A Theory of Structure" in American Journal of Sociology (1992); - "Political Events as Structural Transformations: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille" in Theory and Society (1996). |
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| Phone: | (773) 702-0900 |
| Office: | Pick 412 |
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Professor William Sewell studies culture and politics in comparative perspective. He also has interests in social theory and political sociology. Sewell has published important studies of French social and cultural history including Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848, Structure and Mobility: The Men and Women of Marseille, 1820-1870, and A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abb Sieyes and What is the Third Estate? Sewell won an American Sociological Association award for the best article in sociological theory for "Political Events as Transformations of Structure" (Theory & Society, 1996). He is a Director of the Social Theory Workshop. In 2004 Professor Sewell was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
