D Zaret
Biographic Data
| ID | 84489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Zaret |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaret |
| SIGNATURE | ZARET D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5404-4891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Petitioning and Power Relations in Pre-Modern Eurasia
This is the first truly comparative analysis of pre-modern petitioning across Eurasia. Most research on petitioning is in case studies or narrowly conceived comparative work with less-than-satisfactory explanations of petitioning as a general practice. The book analyzes petitioning as a tool of state, and not (as widely suggested) an instrument of protest or imitation of religious prayer. Petitioning’s administrative context was the common elemen…
Fabricating opinion
During the first five months of the new Grey administration (22 November to the 22 April 1831 dissolution), parliament received more petitions over the contentious issue of parliamentary reform than in any prior episode of mass petitioning. This case study uses unusual records with granular evidence from the professional management of a reactionary campaign for petitions against the 1831 Reform Bill. The records are from the law firm that managed…
Petition-and-Response and Liminal Petitioning in Comparative/Historical Perspective
Before its deployment as a practice by insurgent social movements for mobilizing public opinion in the long nineteenth century, petitioning was a ubiquitous, relatively uniform practice with no connection to popular insurgency. It was nearly the inverse, though just as prominent, phenomenon: an instrument of state as opposed to an instrument of protest, occurring wherever rulership relied on administrative techniques for generating and deploying …
Book Matters
Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution
Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution: Deference, Difference, and Dissent. Amanda Jane Whiting. Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies 25. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. xxvi + 368 pp. - Volume 69 Issue 4
Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London
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American Media and the Public Sphere
Origins of Democratic Culture
Origins of Democratic Culture
Arezzo is described, each time as if this is the first mention of the event) suggest that no one read through all the final drafts.The failure to encourage all participants to connect their papers, at least briefly, to some of the others also indicates a relatively lax editorial hand.A list of participants, providing their academic affiliation and a brief indication of their other research, is always useful in a collection like this.Its absence i…
Origins of Democratic Culture
Innerworldly Individualism
Journal Article Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and Its Institutionalization. By Adam B. Seligman. (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1994. xii, 254 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-56000-128-3.) Get access David Zaret David Zaret Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 175–176, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945494 …
Petitions and the 'Invention' of Public Opinion in the English Revolution
Current accounts of the capitalist and Protestant origins of the democratic public sphere are inconsistent and speculative. This empirical account explains the transition in political communication from norms of secrecy to appeals to public opinion. Popular communicative change in the English Revolution anticipated, in practice, the democratic theory of the public sphere when printing transformed a traditional instrument of communication-the peti…
Relations into Rhetorics
Bearman (sociology, U. of North Carolina) shows how from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century, kinship ties were replaced by client-patron relations as the primary mechanism of power within the gentry of the English countryside, and how that change laid the groundwork for the civil war. As the gentr
The Myth of American Individualism
History and Social Theory
Anthony Giddens
The Professional Quest for Truth
Weber's Protestant Ethic
The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws …
Calvin, Covenant Theology, and the Weber Thesis
Reclaiming the Sacred
Time, Place, and Circumstance
Introduction: Max Weber and Comparative Religions Oriental Religion Max Weber and the Religions of Asia Social Conflict and Dialectical Change in Weber's Religion of India Patrimonialist Rulership in Tibet: Four Historical Periods Occidental Antiquity The Judges of Ancient Israel: An Exploration in Charismatic Authority From Myth to Theology: Intellectuals and the Rationalization of Religion in Ancient Greece Max Weber and the Sociology of Early …
Liberalism
Religion and the Rise of Liberal-Democratic Ideology in 17th-Century England
In classical and contemporary sociology, key elements of liberal-democratic ideology are seen as secular extensions of Protestant ideas. This case study provides a different analysis that emphasizes the problem of religious conflict and radicalism in early liberal-democratic ideology. Proponents of the new ideology rejected key tenets of their Puritan heritage, adopting deistic beliefs that legitimated pluralism and tolerance and opposed the olde…
The Violence of Abstraction
The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought
Theory and Method in Comparative Research
We examine the comparative strategies of Durkheim and Weber and link them to specific presuppositions. While both are compatible with goals of explanation and generalization in sociological analysis, they use different types of explanation and different degrees of generalization to produce variable-based (Durkheimian) and case-based (Weberian) studies. Several authors (e.g., Kapsis; Smelser, b) suggest that these two strategies converge. We show …
Petitions and the 'Invention' of Public Opinion in the English Revolution
Current accounts of the capitalist and Protestant origins of the democratic public sphere are inconsistent and speculative. This empirical account explains the transition in political communication from norms of secrecy to appeals to public opinion. Popular communicative change in the English Revolution anticipated, in practice, the democratic theory of the public sphere when printing transformed a traditional instrument of communication-the peti…
Religion and the Rise of Liberal-Democratic Ideology in 17th-Century England
In classical and contemporary sociology, key elements of liberal-democratic ideology are seen as secular extensions of Protestant ideas. This case study provides a different analysis that emphasizes the problem of religious conflict and radicalism in early liberal-democratic ideology. Proponents of the new ideology rejected key tenets of their Puritan heritage, adopting deistic beliefs that legitimated pluralism and tolerance and opposed the olde…
From Weber to Parsons and Schutz
Sociologists have generally dissociated theoretical synthesis from historical research, but the triumph of general theory over historicism is a hollow one. Efforts to formulate general theories of society devoid of historical limitation have created serious problems for theoretical work. This article examines two important examples of this tendency: Parson's and Schutz's use of Weberian sociology to derive general theories of social action. A his…
Essays on Interpretation in Social Science
Weber's Protestant Ethic
The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws …
Calvin, Covenant Theology, and the Weber Thesis
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Petition-and-Response and Liminal Petitioning in Comparative/Historical Perspective
Before its deployment as a practice by insurgent social movements for mobilizing public opinion in the long nineteenth century, petitioning was a ubiquitous, relatively uniform practice with no connection to popular insurgency. It was nearly the inverse, though just as prominent, phenomenon: an instrument of state as opposed to an instrument of protest, occurring wherever rulership relied on administrative techniques for generating and deploying …
Legislators and Interpreters
Does the Heavenly Contract Invalidate the Protestant Ethic
A Limited Conventionalist Critique of Newtonian Space-Time
In this paper, I examine a number of alternative global structures for Newtonian space-time, and corresponding Newtonian theories of mechanics and gravitation. I argue that since these theories differ only with respect to questions concerning the relative distribution of inertial and gravitational forces, the choice between them is a matter of convention. Therefore, the global structure of Newtonian space-time is also a matter of convention. Sinc…
Absolute Space and Conventionalism
Facing up to Modernity
Absolute Space and Conventionalism
The Radical Will
A Limited Conventionalist Critique of Newtonian Space-Time
In this paper, I examine a number of alternative global structures for Newtonian space-time, and corresponding Newtonian theories of mechanics and gravitation. I argue that since these theories differ only with respect to questions concerning the relative distribution of inertial and gravitational forces, the choice between them is a matter of convention. Therefore, the global structure of Newtonian space-time is also a matter of convention. Sinc…
Ideology and Organisation in Puritanism
Puritanism has been a fertile field for sociological inquiry. Studies of puritan thought have established its secular implications for economic and political life, for science, medicine and modernity. Indeed, puritanism occupies a place in the development of sociological analysis similar to that of the French Revolution in historiography. As much can be learned from studies of puritanism about sociology as about society. One lesson concerns the p…
Critiques of critical theory
Max Weber's Vision of History
From Weber to Parsons and Schutz
Sociologists have generally dissociated theoretical synthesis from historical research, but the triumph of general theory over historicism is a hollow one. Efforts to formulate general theories of society devoid of historical limitation have created serious problems for theoretical work. This article examines two important examples of this tendency: Parson's and Schutz's use of Weberian sociology to derive general theories of social action. A his…
Karl Marx's Theory of History
The Essential Tension
Essays on Interpretation in Social Science
From political philosophy to social theory
Critical accounts of the origins of sociology stress both continuity and change as they are related to previous styles of political and social thought. This article further extends these accounts. It analyzes substantive as well as formal continuities and changes in the transition from political to social conceptions of order. Both intellectual and societal factors are responsible for this theoretical transition. Explicitly political and social c…
Kings or People
Communication and the Evolution of Society.Jurgen Habermas , Thomas McCarthy
The Past and the Present
John Milton and the English Revolution
The Dominant Ideology Thesis
Theory and Method in Comparative Research
We examine the comparative strategies of Durkheim and Weber and link them to specific presuppositions. While both are compatible with goals of explanation and generalization in sociological analysis, they use different types of explanation and different degrees of generalization to produce variable-based (Durkheimian) and case-based (Weberian) studies. Several authors (e.g., Kapsis; Smelser, b) suggest that these two strategies converge. We show …
Does the Heavenly Contract Invalidate the Protestant Ethic
Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Piety and Politics
The Heavenly Contract
The Heavenly Contract
The Heavenly Contract
Statistical Techniques and Sociological Theory
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