The aim of RC56 is to further and develop the approaches, investigations and methodologies in historical sociology in the direction of an international, transnational and global sociology.
Sociology from its very beginning has been a historically oriented discipline, aiming at understanding and explaining social change in the evolving modern societies. At the same time, there have been theoretical and methodological tensions between rather social-scientific approaches within sociology oriented to the general features of modern societies and rather cultural-scientific approaches oriented to the specific historical trajectories and configurations of modernising societies.
In the context of accelerating world-wide modernization and globalization processes and the accompanying development of international, transnational and global sociology, historical sociological approaches argue for the multiplicity of modernity, modernization and globalization processes and related historically and culturally grounded inter-civilizational, international and transnational sociological-comparative research.
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RC56 Historical Sociology 