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  1. The Past and the Future of Historical Sociology: An Introduction

    An overview of the main themes and research problems of historical sociology is followed by a brief review of the contents of the chapters included in the Historical sociology section, which are devoted to historical sociological insights in the fields of research of state and power, war and violence, emotions, sport and leisure, gender ...

  2. Historical sociology

    Sociology. Historical sociology is an interdisciplinary field of research that combines sociological and historical methods to understand the past, how societies have developed over time, and the impact this has on the present. [1] It emphasises a mutual line of inquiry of the past and present to understand how discrete historical events fit ...

  3. Sociology Lens

    Formerly known as the Journal of Historical Sociology, Sociology Lens focuses on critical and historical perspectives on social issues and aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology and other social sciences. We publish research articles, review essays, and book reviews that explore the intersection of history and sociology in various regions and contexts.

  4. PDF The Rise and Domestication of Historical Sociology

    The Rise and Domestication of. Historical Sociology. Craig Calhoun. Historical sociology is not really new, though it has enjoyed a certain vogue in the last twenty years. In fact, historical research and scholarship (including comparative history) was central to the work of many of the founders and forerunners of sociology-most notably Max ...

  5. 30 Historical Sociology

    30.1 Comparative Historical Analysis. The field of historical sociology claims many of the illustrious European thinkers of the nineteenth century as its intellectual forebears. In the USA, however, the rise of historical sociology was the result of a small intellectual revolution against the dominance of a Parsonsian paradigm.

  6. Historical Sociology and Time

    Pp. 129-146 in Time and Aging, edited by Ephraim H. Mizruchi, Barry Glasner, and Thomas Pastorello. New York: General Hall. Google Scholar. Historical sociologists have criticized their discipline for a tendency to ignore the temporal dimensions of social life, either by studying the correlates of outcomes rather than the character of ...

  7. Historical sociology

    historical sociology. The term commonly applied to sociological analysis based on historical data sources—either primary (such as original documents in archives) or secondary (the written history produced by historians themselves). Historical sociologists see social change as a structured process of development but do not accept evolutionism ...

  8. What Do Historical Sociologists Do All Day? Analytic Architectures in

    Drawing on an original data set of over 15,000 in-text citations, we use quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze 37 award-winning publications in historical sociology between 1995 and 2015. We show that historical sociology comprises no fewer than four distinct analytic architectures that rely on different kinds of sources and use evidence and theory in different ways. We find ...

  9. Historicity and Sociology

    Abstract. The nature, status, and role of historical sociology have been extensively discussed in recent decades. In this regard, the question concerning its place in the humanities and social sciences deserves to be taken seriously. 'There are many reasons to study historical sociology - or to study history sociologically'.

  10. PDF The Past and the Future of Historical Sociology: An Introduction

    An overview of the main themes and research problems of historical sociology is followed by a brief review of the contents of the chapters included in the Historical sociology section, M. Bucholc (*) University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. e-mail: [email protected]. S. Mennell School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

  11. Historical Sociology

    Historical Sociology. Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Julia Adams, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015. Abstract ' Historical sociology ' is the systematic examination of the past to inform and reconstruct empirical findings and theories about the world. Its roots lie with sociology's classical founders, but it experienced vibrant growth and ...

  12. Global Historical Sociology

    Winner, 2019 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association. 'Global Historical Sociology is a virtuoso guide to bringing 'the global in' to the understanding of political and social history. This collection is a compelling, agenda-setting statement for both historical ...

  13. Comparative Historical Sociology

    Introduction. Comparative historical sociology is the branch of sociology that analyzes society-wide transformations, such as social revolutions, the rise of capitalism and the nation-state, democratization, and the birth and transformation of welfare states. At the end of the 19th century all of sociology's European founders turned to ...

  14. Historical Sociology

    HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGYUsed as a category to identify social scientific research that constructs or illustrates theory by careful attention to culturally, geographically, and temporally located facts, historical sociology (or, from the historian's vantage point, sociological history) exists as a self-conscious research orientation within both of its parent disciplines.

  15. Historical Sociology

    Access to the full content requires a subscription. Over the past 20 years, historical sociology in international relations (HSIR) has contributed to a number of debates, ranging from examination of the origins of the modern states system to unraveling the core features and relative novelty of the contemporary historical period.

  16. Political and Historical Sociology

    Research. This cluster explores interdisciplinary scholarship in socio-economic, cultural and political history. The focus is on the nature, dynamics and interacting influences of culture, politics and institutions, explored at all levels of analysis. Research is guided by the recurring theoretical problems of causality, origins, continuity and ...

  17. Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung

    Historical Social Research - Historische Sozialforschung (HSR) is a peer-reviewed international journal for the application of formal methods to history. Formal methods can be defined as all methods which are sufficiently intersubjective to be realized as an information science algorithm. Formalization means a variety of procedures that match ...

  18. The Future of Sociology's History: New Voices in the History of

    A history of sociology research methods in America, 1920-1960. Cambridge University Press. Rawls, A. (2018). The wartime narrative in US sociology, 1940-1947: stigmatizing qualitative sociology in the name of 'science'. European Journal of Social Theory, 21(4), 526-546.

  19. PDF What is Historical Sociology?

    of. Humanities, zech Republic1. IntroductionThe relationship between sociology and history is complex and far from harmonious; it has aspects that make it particularly difficult, leading to theoretical and methodological uncertainty while creating. number of "friction" topics. While some authors consider historical sociology an established ...

  20. RC56 Historical Sociology

    Established as Working Group on Historical and Comparative Sociology in 2010; as Research Committee on Historical Sociology in 2016. Objectives. The aim of the working group is to further and develop the approaches, investigations and methodologies in historical and comparative sociology in the direction of an international, transnational and ...

  21. Past and present currents of sociology: 70 years of

    Resumen. This review paper marks the 70th anniversary of Current Sociology, the first journal founded by the International Sociological Association (ISA). The past seven decades have been a time of immense change within sociology and around the world, and the shifts within the structure and content of the journal mirror these transformations.

  22. Vision and Method in Historical Sociology

    The introduction and conclusion discuss the long-running tradition of historically grounded research in sociology, while the conclusion also provides a detailed discussion and comparison of three recurrent strategies for bringing historical evidence and theoretical ideas to bear upon one another. informative, thought-provoking, and unusually ...

  23. 1.2 The History of Sociology

    Lester Ward (1841 - 1913) developed social research methods and argued for the use of the scientific method and quantitative data (Chapter 2) to show the effectiveness of policies. In order for sociology to gain respectability in American academia, social researchers understood that they must adopt empirical approaches. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)