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**History and Sociology:** 

Jiri Subrt

*Czech Republic* 

**What is Historical Sociology?** 

*Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities,* 

The 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 a number of "friction" topics. While some authors consider historical sociology an established field, and other consider it difficult to distinguish between history and sociology, communication between historical and sociological disciplines is notably limited. One indication of this is the paucity of university departments devoted to the subject. Despite certain expectations of the conjunction of these two disciplines, communication between their respective practitioners is frequently loaded with mutual ignorance, prejudices, bias, and even opinion-extremes. From the outset we should say that, intending to deal with the complicated relationship between sociology and history, we do so in the knowledge that our approach must necessarily be - given the thematic breadth of the problem - selective, and, moreover, limited by coming from the sociological perspective. It is very likely that if a paper on the same topic were written by a historian, other issues would be emphasised. Opinions on specific issues would no doubt diverge,

In the early history of sociology many founders of the field sought out the key subject of its research. However, for subsequent generations of sociologists such questioning has gradually lost its importance and urgency. But the matter did not disappear definitively; on the contrary, in some contemporary debates it has returned to the professional scene. Evidence of this is the controversy concerning the relationship between sociology and

In the book *Central Problems in Social Theory* the author Anthony Giddens [1979: 230] argued that there are no logical nor methodological reasons for distinguishing between the social sciences and history. This claim was shortly thereafter bolstered by the influential representative of the British historical sociology, Philip Abrams [1982: 2], who formulated the argument that the history and sociology are and always have been one and the same thing. Giddens himself then again tried to argue this position in perhaps his most important theoretical work, *The Constitution of Society* (1984 [1988]), in which he states that there is

**1. Introduction** 

and accents be placed on different themes.

**2. Dialogue of the deaf?** 

history.

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