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12922
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4025
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1918

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

George Steinmetz is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, as well as history and political science and international relations.

The main topics addressed in Steinmetz's work include contemporary sociological theory and practice, social and cultural dynamics, critical realism in sociology, management and organizational studies, German social sciences and history, Emile Durkheim and sociology, and political theory and influence.

Steinmetz has a number of frequent coauthors, including Charles W. Anderson, Douglas D. Heckathorn, Philip Selznick, James Cronin, and Carole Shammas.

The frequent venues for Steinmetz's publications include:

  • Journal of Classical Sociology
  • Social Science History
  • Modern Intellectual History
  • KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
  • Teoria e Cultura

Recent papers authored by Steinmetz include:

  • Vergleichende Soziologie, kritischer Realismus und Reflexivität, 2021, KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
  • Durkheim's Critique of Colonialism and Empire, 2024, Modern Intellectual History
  • Rethinking postcolonial sociology, 2024, Journal of Classical Sociology
  • RETRACTED: W.E.B. Du Bois on empires and colonies, 1896-1963, 2024, Journal of Classical Sociology
  • Response to My Readers, 2023, Social Science History

Steinmetz has published books primarily through Princeton University Press. Among these is "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought," published in 2023, which appears in multiple citations linked to that year.

In 1995, Steinmetz was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state

    Thomas Blom Hansen;Finn Stepputat;George Steinmetz;Julia Adams

  • The Devil's Handwriting

    George Steinmetz

  • State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural Turn

    George Steinmetz

  • The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa

    George Steinmetz

  • Regulating the social

    George Steinmetz

  • Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany

    George Steinmetz

  • The Fall and Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie: Changing Patterns of Self-Employment in the Postwar United States

    George Steinmetz;Erik Olin Wright

  • States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection

    Jeffrey K. Olick;Julia Adams;George Steinmetz;Fred C. Corney

  • Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology

    Julia Adams;Elisabeth Clemens;Ann Shola Orloff;George Steinmetz

  • The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its epistemological others

    George Steinmetz;Julia Adams;Webb Keane;Michael Dutton

  • Odious Comparisons: Incommensurability, the Case Study, and “Small N's” in Sociology

    George Steinmetz

  • Critical Realism and Historical Sociology. A Review Article

    George Steinmetz

  • Ruins of Modernity

    Julia Hell;Andreas Schönle;Julia Adams;George Steinmetz

  • The Colonial State as a Social Field: Ethnographic Capital and Native Policy in the German Overseas Empire before 1914

    George Steinmetz

  • Reflections on the Role of Social Narratives in Working-Class Formation: Narrative Theory in the Social Sciences

    George Steinmetz

  • Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline

    George Steinmetz

  • Bourdieu, Historicity, and Historical Sociology:

    George Steinmetz

  • Bourdieu's Disavowal of Lacan: Psychoanalytic Theory and the Concepts of “Habitus” and “Symbolic Capital”

    George Steinmetz

  • Return to Empire: The New U.S. Imperialism in Comparative Historical Perspective*

    George Steinmetz

  • The Sociology of Empires, Colonies, and Postcolonialism

    George Steinmetz

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