«Исторический поворот» за границами истории

С. 36–54.

Savelieva I. M.

The article concentrates on the analysis of new tendencies in the theoretical foundations of historical sociology in the incoming new century. It focuses on the so called “third wave” in sociology which strangely remains unnoticed by historians. Meanwhile the representatives of the “third wave” rejected the fundamental principles of their teachers – creators of many famous concepts of modernization. The new generation in American sociology prefers to focus their studies on topics other than typology, searching for contingency, unpredictability, chains of events, path dependency etc. Here in conceptual approaches to the past social reality we find out deliberate and thought-out attempt to use transformed and formalized but essentially historical methods which are well articulated. The broader object of the research is the historical knowledge and the professional concepts about “subject and method”, the creation of interdisciplinary areas, mutual adoption and interventions.

Keywords: history, interdisciplinarity, dynamics, path dependency, contingency, continuity, "исторический поворот", американская историческая социология, historical sociology, historical event, sociological methods, chance, historical tendency

Publication based on the results of: Origins and Nature of the Changes in Humanities and Social Sciences in 19th – 21st Centuries (2011)

In book

Историческое познание и историографическая ситуация на рубеже XX–XXI вв.

М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 2012.