Historical Sociology vs Historical Materialism:A Study in Modernity
Historical Sociology vs Historical Materialism:A Study in Modernity

Summary/Abstract: This paper makes a concise comparison between historical sociology and historical materialism, the former contesting the validity of social formation supported by the later. It shows that societal transformation is mainly a feature of expressing modernity rather than a purposeful revolutionary act, as historical materialism entails. The Weberian method of inquiry into the social formation proves that a systemic change is a mark of modernity as shift to new social developments. In the Marxist prediction of capitalist dismantling, modernity plays an active final role, whereas historical sociology supports the open-end social evolutionary perspective.

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