Irritating flirtations. Reflections on the relationship between history and sociology since the 1970s
Abstract: The article shows that whereas a close interdisciplinary cooperation between history and sociology at Bielefeld University had already been envisioned by its founding fathers, this has remained not much more than a program for the first thirty years. Only recently, after both disciplines had had flirtations with other adjacent fields of study, they have been showing a renewed interest in each other. Institutions like the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, designed for a joint graduate training program, have taken their collaboration onto an unprecedented theoretical, methodological, and organizational level. The article argues that sociology may profit from history’s self-reflective turn during its clash with postmodernism. History’s declared belief in an enlightened constructivism and its insistence both in the temporality of all social practices and in the historicity of all concepts could spark a new consciousness within sociology in regard to its theoretica.... http://www.inter-disciplines.org/index.php/indi/article/view/924
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Irritating flirtations. Reflections on the relationship between history and sociology since the 1970s ; volume:1 ; number:1 ; day:11 ; month:10 ; year:2010
InterDisciplines ; 1, Heft 1 (11.10.2010)
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Welskopp, Thomas
- DOI
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10.4119/indi-924
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2018121115122261740709
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:48 AM CEST
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- Welskopp, Thomas