Theoretical Conceptions of Historical Sociology












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            * Theoretical Conceptions of Historical Sociology
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            1.     Positivism and antipositivism in the history of sociological thought


            2.     Karl Marx and his influence on historical sociological thought


            3.     From Herbert Spencer to Niklas Luhmann - evolutionism and the problem of social dif

            4.     Max Weber and the issue of religion, rationalization and modernity


            5.     Émile Durkheim and his influence on structuralism and functionalism (on their adopt

            their criticism).

            6.     Maurice Halbwachs - the theory of collective memory; J. Assmann


            7.     Norbert Elias and the civilizing process


            8.     The influence of structuralist ideas on historical sociology (Fernand Braudel, Mich

            9.     C. Lévi Strauss, structuralism and cultural relativism; C. Geertz


            10.  Interpretation of the concept of civilization and culture; J. P. Arnason


            11.  Critique of totalitarianism; Arendt, Popper, Aron

            12.  Talcott Parsons, structural functionalism and evolutionist theories of social change


            13.  The theory of Conflict: Coser, R. Dahrendorf, S. Huntington, M. Mann


            14.  The theory of Social Change - different types of changes; P. Sztompka

            15.  The new historical comparative sociology: B. Moore, C. Tilly, T. Skocpol, M. Mann


            16.  Immanuel Wallerstein - dependency theory, world systems theory


            17.  A. Giddens - Attempts to reconstruct social theory and ways of overcoming traditional

            18.  Contemporary modernization theory (post-industrial, postmodernism, second modernity, 


            19.  The theory of axial time and multiple modernities; Shmuel Eisenstadt


            20.  Historical sociology of nationalism; E. Gellner, M. Hroch