Historical sociology

The Historical sociology is an approach in which an attempt is made aware of the social reality to approach with the empirical methods of historiography, where the emphasis is on the historical change. The approach is already detectable in precursors of sociology and was never completely abandoned in the tray.

Approach

The Historical Sociology consists partly of strict model- or system-oriented sociology from which it accuses proceed conditional narrow-mindedness; but sometimes they regarded as complementary working with them. The scientific ambition (such as the theory of rational decision) to make predictions about the future incoming corresponds to hers, incoming forecasts of rooted in the past, present and future declarations of leave (comparative and epignostisches procedure ).

The History

The imposing and at first very enlightening using arithmetical and quantitative methods urged at least since the 1940s, the historical approaches of sociology back. From about 1960 it was no longer operated by the academic sociology. Only the limits of empirical- quantitative supportable predictability (also in view of the intractable problems of "self -fulfilling " and " destructive " prophecy ) combined with high and complex social problem printing rehabilitated a "Historical Sociology ".

Magazine

The International Journal of Historical Sociology relevant is the Journal of Historical Sociology.

Exemplary works

  • Werner Sombart: Modern capitalism. Historical and systematic presentation of the pan-European economic life from its beginning to the present (1902 ).
  • Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the ' Spirit ' of Capitalism (1904 /05).
  • Alfred von Martin: Sociology of the Renaissance. To physiognomy and rhythm of bourgeois culture ( 1932).
  • Norbert Elias: About The Civilizing Process ( 1939).
  • Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation (1944).
  • Alfred Weber: The third or fourth person. From the sense of the historical existence ( 1953).
  • Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany (1965).
  • Immanuel Wallerstein: The Modern World - System, four volumes (1974, 1980, 1989, 2011).
  • Michael Mann: history of power, Volume 1 (1986 ), Volume 2 (1993 ), Volume 3, Part I ( 1998), Volume 3, Part II ( 2001).
The Great Transformation (book) Michael Mann (sociologist)
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