Every Social Scientist Her Own Historian

Reassembling Weber to reveal the-past-as-history in management and organization studies

“…As we have shown in the various representations of Weber, including the histories of Weber constructed over time, Weberian narratives are the results of the 'interests' of the various communities of practice or actor-networks established in relation to their own projects, their own schools or their own perspectives. These relations are both created by these actors and networks, for we are all historians (Geary, 2008), as much as they are mediated by how our histories portray and interpret Weber and his work. Thus, the mutability of Weber and Weberian theory is the result of the ongoing process of subsequent and iterative re-interpretation of Weber as scholars, situated in one socio-political moment, move between their present projects and Weberian historical traces in another socio-political moment.…”

Introduction: Sociology in Portugal

“…Literature on the history of sociology in Portugal has been, by and large, dominated by 'internal' historical studies (Cruz 1983;Nunes 1988;Machado 2009), including case studies of sociology journals (Casanova 1996), sociology conferences (Lobo 1996), or sociology departments (Dias 2006). Several developments in recent decades have contributed to make this dichotomy less salient (Geary 2008). On the one hand, 'internal' accounts have benefited enormously from an ever more sophisticated literature on the history of disciplines.…”