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
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
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)

Creator
Welskopp, Thomas

DOI
10.4119/indi-924
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2018121115122261740709
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