The indissoluble link between sociology and history is not new to the social sciences. In the early 20th century, Weber (1922) saw relationships between history and sociology as based on mutual and essential support and logical priority, according to which, rephrasing Alessandro Cavalli (2001), “sociology without history is blind, history without sociology is mute.” In fact, following the intentions of its Founding Fathers, the discipline of sociology arose as a “science of connections” aiming at investigating relationships between social life phenomena and events, even those apparently far from each other. According to a strategic interdisciplinary analysis, also the “Annales” lesson confirmed the indissoluble link between history and social sciences. Braudel was a great defender of the view that history and sociology are a single unitary enterprise: «one single intellectual adventure, not two different sides of the same cloth but the very stuff of that cloth itself, the entire substance of its yarn» (Braudel 1980: 69).
. The Construction of Social Action. From the Positivistic to the Voluntarist Theory of the Action / DE NARDIS, Paolo. - (2020).
. The Construction of Social Action. From the Positivistic to the Voluntarist Theory of the Action
Paolo de Nardis
2020
Abstract
The indissoluble link between sociology and history is not new to the social sciences. In the early 20th century, Weber (1922) saw relationships between history and sociology as based on mutual and essential support and logical priority, according to which, rephrasing Alessandro Cavalli (2001), “sociology without history is blind, history without sociology is mute.” In fact, following the intentions of its Founding Fathers, the discipline of sociology arose as a “science of connections” aiming at investigating relationships between social life phenomena and events, even those apparently far from each other. According to a strategic interdisciplinary analysis, also the “Annales” lesson confirmed the indissoluble link between history and social sciences. Braudel was a great defender of the view that history and sociology are a single unitary enterprise: «one single intellectual adventure, not two different sides of the same cloth but the very stuff of that cloth itself, the entire substance of its yarn» (Braudel 1980: 69).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
