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ЗЛАТНО ДОБА МАКРОИСТОРИЈСКЕ СОЦИОЛОГИЈЕ
THE GOLDEN AGE OF MACRO-HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY

Author(s): Randall Collins
Subject(s): History
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: analytical Macro-History; critics of Macro-History; contextuality analytical particularism

Summary/Abstract: Sociological macro-historians have the advantage of consciously checking whether their models of large-scale processes in time and space are coherent with what we have learned from any other areas of sociological research. The sociologist devoted to bringing out the explicit dynamics underlying historical narratives generates more confidence in being on the right track to the extent that s/he can crossintegrate historical patterns with other parts of sociology. The end product need not be theory as a concern in itself. In the light of such cumulation of sociological knowledge via explicit theory, we are better able to produce new histories.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 01-04
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian