Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change
Biography, Family History and the Analysis of Social Change
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传记、家族史和社会变迁分析
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10.1007/978-1-349-20786-2_5
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发表时间：
1990
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B. Elliott
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B. Elliott
在他的《历史社会学》（1982）一书中，菲利普·艾布拉姆斯敦促我们把社会学和历史学本质上看作是同一门事业，尽管有些人，尤其是历史学的人对此持保留意见，但近年来，这两个学科的许多学者显然都遵循了他的处方。在历史学中出现了一门专门学科——社会史——它最好地将社会学的理论和方法与历史学家的许多传统手艺结合起来。在社会学中，对资本主义发展或国家建立过程中的长期变化的关注，对社会革命等重大事件的关注，对时间而不是跨文化比较的渴望，或者仅仅是将特定群体的行动、信仰和制度置于背景下的雄心壮志，已经产生了一种独特的写作风格——历史社会学。在英国，正如卡尔霍恩（1987）所观察到的，许多最有趣、最激动人心的工作都是由历史学家完成的，这些工作符合艾布拉姆斯的目标，但爱丁堡会议表明，在英国社会学内部，现在有一个实质性的、日益增长的对历史的关注。在过去十年左右的时间里，历史社会学的丰硕成果在美国社会学中得到了很好的展示，许多作家，如巴林顿·摩尔、斯科波、哈芬和蒂利，探索了变化的主要过程，重新审视了社会科学奠基人的经典主题，并采用了各种各样的调查技术。
In his book Historical Sociology Philip Abrams (1982) urged us to think about Sociology and History as essentially the same enterprise and while there are some, particularly in history, who have reservations about this, there are plainly many scholars in both disciplines who, in recent years have followed his prescription. Within History there has emerged a specialism — social history — that at its best combines the theories and methods of sociology with much of the historians’ traditional craft. In Sociology a focus upon long-run changes in the development of capitalism or in the processes of state-making, a concern with momentous events like social revolutions, the desire to make temporal rather than, say, cross-cultural comparisons or simply the ambition to set the actions, beliefs and institutions of particular groups in context has given rise to a distinctive strand of writing — to historical sociology. In Britain, as Calhoun (1987) observes, much of the most interesting and exciting work which meets Abrams’ objectives has been done by the historians but the Edinburgh Conference revealed that within British Sociology there is now a substantial and growing concern with history. The fruitfulness of historical sociology has certainly been well displayed in American sociology in the last decade or so with many writers like Barrington Moore, Skocpol, Hareven and Tilly exploring major processes of change, re-examining classic themes from the founding fathers of social science and bringing to bear a diverse array of techniques of investigation.