Historical Sociology. Between sociologists and historians there has existed since the first inception of sociological ideas, even since the time of Condorcet, a sharp difference, a state of battle, which grows out of two different sources - a psychological and a scientifico-logical.

Historical Sociology

In the aftermath of its near-demise by fascism and Stalinism, the resurgence of historical sociology has been one of the most important developments in contemporary sociology and history.

Historical Sociology studies the past to find out how societies work and change. Historical sociology is deeply divided between explanatory 'sociological' approaches and more empirical and interpretative 'historical' approaches.

What are the main routes of development of historical sociology?

Marx, Max Weber, evolutionary and functionalist approaches. The Annales School, Elias, Nelson and Eisenstadt. Modernization approaches, late Marxist approaches, historical geography, institutional approaches, cultural history, intellectual history, postcolonial and genealogical approaches. Themes in historical sociology ranging from state formation, nationalism, social movements, classes, patriarchy, architecture, religion and moral regulation to problems of periodization and East-West divisions. History of forms of thought, subjectivity, knowledge, closed space, regulated time and historical processes that led to modernity.

Between sociologists and historians there has existed since the first inception of sociological ideas, even since the time of Condorcet, a sharp difference, a state of battle, which grows out of two different sources - a psychological and a scientifico-logical.

The psychological difference is based on the fact that all the older writing of history viewed and evaluated events from the standpoint of the upper class. It was, as soon as it had grown out of the embryonic stage of writing mere annals or chronicles, of three kinds: first, court historiography, with the clearly set task of glorifying the deeds and creations of the ruler; or secondly, it was clerical philosophy of history, which explained events from the standpoint of the ruling church as the carrying out of a divine plan of salvation, and was for this reason necessarily quietistic, conservative, anti-revolutionary; or finally, it was history-writing of the third estate, which had either already gained control of its state or was at least preparing to do so, and if it had not already attained to complete victory politically, at least it already possessed sufficient economic means to want political control and to be able to force it in the not too distant future. On the other hand, the first representatives of sociological thought viewed things as socialists from below, and this attitude has never been entirely lost by their successors, as for example Comte, who had primarily bourgeois tendencies. - opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/fo27b.htm

International Institute of Social History
Description The Web site of the International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam. The IISH was founded in 1935 and is one of world's largest research institutes in the area of social and labour history. The IISH holds substantial collections in the field, including 2,500 archival collections and 1 million printed volumes, and a similar number of audio-visual items. The site contains information relating to these collections and users may search across them using an online catalogue. There is information about the Institute's journal publication, the International review of social history, including contents and abstracts from 1956 to the present and bibliographies from 1992 to the present. The site also hosts other services of note, including the Viva database, a bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals; the Occasio digital archive of newsgroup messages relating to social history; and the World Wide Web Virtual Libraries for labour history and women's history. Historians of medicine, particularly those interested in social medicine, public health and women and medicine should find a wealth of useful material in this site. All text is available in English in addition to Dutch. - http://www.iisg.nl/

ESHHS is the successor organization to Cheiron-Europe, which was founded in 1982, and aims to provide a forum for international and cross-disciplinary study of the history of the human sciences. - http://psychology.dur.ac.uk/eshhs/

AN INVESTIGATION INTO COLLECTIVE HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPLICATIONS OF ITS IGNORANCE - Whoever controls the past controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past. --George Orwell. - http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/histignr.html

Sorting fact from fiction - Gilding, shading and distortion are common features in the telling of history, whether deliberate or unintended. Often, upon closer examination of primary sources, accepted historical "facts" tend to unravel and are revealed to be more myth and legend. - http://www.thehistorynet.com/

European Society for the History of the Human Sciences. http://psychology.dur.ac.uk/eshhs

Between sociologists and historians there has existed since the first inception of sociological ideas, even since the time of Condorcet, a sharp difference. http://www.opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer/fo27b.htm

Ed Stephan's Timeline of Sociology. Important dates in the history of Sociology from 1600

A Sociology Guy's Historical Resources. http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/history.html

The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918. For it is always a question, when one speaks of imperialism, of the assertion of … http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918schumpeter1.html

The Forum for History of Human Science supports historians who investigate the history of the human sciences, among them psychology, anthropology, sociology, and economy.

ASANET History of Sociology. This section promotes the study of the history of Sociology.

A world history chart that begins with David and Salomon. http://www.hyperhistory.com/

A sociological content analysis of history school textbooks in Japan. It reviews the changes in contents of high school history textbooks in postwar Japan, and analyzes the transformation of history education in terms of the rise and fall of postwar Japanese nationalism. The study is focused on (1) the effects of postwar ethnocentric Japanese nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s on history textbooks, and (2) the new movement of history education toward "transnationalism" after the mid-1980s. - http://member.nifty.ne.jp/Tomochika/

The Journal of Historical Sociology. - Edited by a distinguished international panel of historians, anthropologists, geographers and sociologists, the Journal of Historical Sociology is both interdisciplinary in approach and innovative in content.- http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0952-1909&site=1

History in Focus is a new occasional series taking a thematic approach to history. Each issue is designed to provide an introduction to the chosen topic and to help stimulate interest and debate. The series will concentrate on highlighting books, reviews, web sites and conferences that relate to the theme, in order to provide a quality assured information resource for learning and teaching. History in Focus will provide a snapshot of resources and events at the time of issue. - http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/index.html

Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society - On-line content, with articles and book reviews on anthropology, environment, and place. - http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/jpeweb.html