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Sociology and Historical Sociology: A Historian's View

Mironov, Boris Nikolaevich

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, 2004-01, Vol.30 (10), p.55-63 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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  • Título:
    Sociology and Historical Sociology: A Historian's View
  • Autor: Mironov, Boris Nikolaevich
  • Assuntos: Comte, Auguste Isidore-Marie-Francois-Xavier ; Durkheim, Emile ; Historical Sociology ; History of Sociology ; Postcommunist Societies ; Russia ; Social History ; Spencer, Herbert ; Weber, Max
  • É parte de: Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, 2004-01, Vol.30 (10), p.55-63
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  • Descrição: The benefits of collaboration between history & sociology are considered in this outline of the contributions in historical sociology & social history in the last century. It is noted that these two fields of inquiry were very close at the origins of social sciences; the founders of sociology -- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, & Emile Durkheim -- were seriously preoccupied with historical issues, while Max Weber was a historian by training. Durkheim advocated that history & sociology become a unified scientific discipline. The surge of interest by historians in social issues in the years 1960-1980 led to the emergence of a plethora of publications & periodicals devoted to research in social history & historical sociology; the purview of a "traditional" historian vs that of a social historian is compared. The prestige of historical sociology was significantly enhanced by correct predictions made about the impending collapse of the USSR & disintegration of the communist block of Central & Eastern European countries. Studies in historical sociology by R. Bendix (1984), C. Tilly (1990), & B. Moore (1987) are reviewed to demonstrate their pertinence to the description & explanation of the political & economic processes in contemporary Russia. The history of historical sociology in Russia is traced from the 1850s through the Soviet period, when sociology was officially banned in the USSR & sociological approaches were applied in historical analyses only sporadically, to the revival of historical sociology in post-Soviet Russia. It is concluded that although historians & sociologists came closer together in the last 50 years, Durkheim's postulate that the two sciences unite remains an unfulfilled desideratum. In Russia & abroad, social history is predominantly the domain of historians while historical sociology of sociologists. 32 References. Z. Dubiel
  • Idioma: Russo

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