Sosiologi Sejarah: Telaah Kritis Tentang Teori dan Sejarah Abad XX

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In the late twentieth century, many theorists seem to agree that a sociology
must be an historical sociology. Abrams went so far as to call historical
sociology ‘the essence of the discipline’, arguing that is ‘almost natural to the
modern western mind’ to explain the contemporary world at least partly in
historical terms What is historical sociology? Skocpol lists four characteristics
of historical studies: They ask question about social structures or processes
understood to be concretely situated in time and space; They address
processes over time, and take temporal sequences seriously in accounting for
outcomes; They mostly attend to the interplay of meaningful action and
structural context, in order to make sense of the unfolding of unintended as
well as intended outcomes in individual lives and social transformations; They
'highlight the particular and varying features of specific kinds of social
structures and patterns of change'.