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Sociological Analysis of Historical Societies: Review Article*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

S. N. Eisenstadt
Affiliation:
The Eliezer Kaplan School of Economic and Social Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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Abstract

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Type
Social Mobility
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1964

References

Ping-ti-Ho, , The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368–1911, New York, Columbia University Press, 1963, XVIII, 385 pp., $8.50.Google Scholar

1 Already the work of Des Routours on the military government under the T˛ang - taken up also later on by Pulleyblank - has indicated this important fact. See Des Routours, R., “Les grands fonctionnaires des provinces en Chine sous la dynastie des T˛ang”, T˛oung Pao, XXIV (1926), pp. 219315;Google ScholarPulleyblank, E.C., The Background of the Rebellion of An Lu Shan, London, 1955.Google Scholar

2 See Miller, S.M., “Comparative Social Mobility”, Current Sociology, IX (No. 1, 1960), pp. 189.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 See Turner, R.H., “Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System”, American Sociological Review, XXV, No. 5 (1960).Google Scholar

4 See Bloch, M., La Société Féodale (Paris, 1939), I, 40.Google Scholar

5 See S. N. Eisenstadt, “Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization”, A Trend Report, Current Sociology, 1959.

6 Rosenberg, H., Bureaucracy, Aristocracy and Autocracy - The Prussian Experience 1660–1815, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958.Google Scholar

7 One possible approach of this type has been attempted by the reviewer in Eisenstadt, S.N., The Political Systems of Empires, New York, The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963, see especially ch. XI.Google Scholar

8 See on this: Eisenstadt, S.N., “Anthropological Studies of Complex Societies”, Current Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (06 1961), pp. 201222.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

9 See on this Lazarsfeld, P.F., Strayer, J.R. and David, H., “History and Public Opinion Research, A Debate”, in Komarovsky, M. (ed.), Common Frontiers of the Social Sciences (Free Press of Glencoe, 1957), pp. 242287.Google Scholar

10 See on this Eisenstadt, S.N., “The Causes of Disintegration and Fall of Empires - Sociological and Historical Analyses”, Diogenes, 34 (Summer, 1961), pp. 82108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

This paper was written in 1962–63 while the author was Carnegie Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.