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Final Point
at the end he shifts gear and discusses the problem with agency
According to him this thought is flawed because it primarily focused on the human experiences
-simply only human can make history
He expands by pointing out the fatal assumption of everything is constant
-he argues that the world is not constant
To fix the problem is to understand the terms and conditions of the dilemmas
The End
one of his example is the one on the existence of the social class
-according to him the social class may not actually exist, instead it is an abstract conception that can only be described by its relation to the things around it.
- simply he is arguing that the social class can only be unsderand by contextualizing it
According to him
-Sociology primarily focuses on social structures
-History primarily focuses on the theoretical laws of the social structures
To better understand social class he uses the tools from both sociology and history
- from history he suggest using the historian skill of contextualization
- he illustrates the importance in understanding the historical relation of the class
-from the Sociology he suggests class is to be examined through its relation to it surrounding such as the frictions and conflicts resulted
-he argues that both fields are fundamentally the same
-the purpose of the two is to understand human agency
-the understanding must be done in terms of the process of the social structure
-he also states there is a gradual movement of the two fields toward each other
Summary
-Biography
Education
Contribution
Thoughts
-Reading
Argument
Central thought
Example
Final Point
History and Sociology are better when studied hand in hand
Problems of Sociologist can be solved historically and vice versa
Sociology
" the Science or Study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society: science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institution etc"
Random House Webster's College Dictionary, Random House, New York, 1990
His academic position is the dominant theme of this reading
"Both [History and Sociology] seek to understand the puzzle of human agency and both seek to do so in terms of the process of social structuring" p239
Education
Biography
-Graduated Cambridge in 1956 with honours in history
-Earned his PhD on his thesis on "John Locke as Conservative" in 1961
- He is primarily focused on the development of the field of sociology
- He believes it is important to approach History with Sociology
Richard Brown, Philip Abrams 1933-1981, from Sociology, http://soc.sagepub.com/content/16/1/i.citation
Biography
-Taught political sociology in Cambridge
- he was the Chairman of the Social and Political Science Committee from 1968 to 1970
(the Committee is responsible for establishing and administering the Social and Political Sciences Tripos, later the main teaching vehicle in Cambridge university)
- one of his greatest contribution to the field of Sociology was his work through the Rowntree Research Department, from there he established the North East Area Study in Durham
- in addition he made several contribution in the argument in the relationship of history and sociology through articles in the oxford Past and Present Journal