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- Title
How Is Sociology Informed by History?
- Authors
Griffin, Larry J.
- Abstract
Often mischaracterized as merely the application of social theory to past events and happenings, historical sociology is actually a distinct way of approaching, explaining, and interpreting general sociological problems. By situating social action and social structures in their historical contexts and by examining their historical unfoldings, historical sociologists exploit the temporality of social life to ask and answer questions of perennial importance to social theory. I draw on recent research and literature both in sociology and in history to argue that we should and can continue to deepen the discipline's "historical turn" by more thoroughly historicizing how we conduct research, understand and use basic analytic concepts, and develop and test general social theories.
- Subjects
HISTORY of sociology; SOCIAL problems; SOCIAL action; SOCIAL structure; SOCIAL evolution; SOCIAL theory; HISTORICAL sociology
- Publication
Social Forces, 1995, Vol 73, Issue 4, p1245
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2580445