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1、http:/www.jstor.org History, Sociology, Historical Sociology Author(s): Philip Abrams Source: Past and Present, No. 87 (May, 1980), pp. 3-16 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society Stable URL: http:/www.jstor.org/stable/650561 Accessed: 29/08/2008 22:27 Your u
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6、T TO MAP RECENT CHANGES in historical writing in terms of a revival of narrative, Eric Hobsbawm recommends choosing a quite different point of departure. 1 An obvious possibility would be to start from the “convergence“ of history and sociology which a number of writers claim to have noticed in the
7、last few years.2 Although it would not be absurd to argue that if there has been such a convergence an important condition for it must have been the discovery by sociologists of certain cogencies of the narrative mode and I shall suggest that that is indeed one of the most important things that has
8、happened to sociology lately it is clear that from the historians point of view any real movement towards sociology must, among other things, have meant a quite definite move away from narrative. The possibility of describing history as *.noving simul- taneously towards narrative and towards sociolo
9、gy is at least enig- matic encuugh to invite some discussion. The argument for convergence tends to cite a range of loosely re- lated developments and to envisage a marriage of convenience rather than one of positive choice. Thus the rise of quantitative history and the possibility of the statistica
10、l reconstruction of past societies which it has perxnitted has involved a pooling of techniques and forms of analy- sis, whatever reservations one might have about its substantive results. The emergence of a range of “subjectivist“ sociologies concerned with personal interaction and everyday experie
11、nce has been matched by a shift of interest among historians towards the Weberian problems of meaning and understanding entailed in efforts to grasp the mentalities of the past and to explore such unconventional matters as the history of lunacy, crime, magic, domestic social relations and, generally
12、, the ordinary cultural worlds of ordinary people. The publication of a series of very ambitious and overtly sociological works coIlcerned with the historical processes of such major traIlsitions as the formation of twentiethwentury democracy and dictatorship, the great modern revolutions and even t
13、he construction oi “the moderIl world sys- 1 L. Stone, “The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New Old History“, Past and Present, no. 85 (Nov. I979), pp. 3-24; E. J. Hobsbawm, “The Revival of Narra- tive: Some Comments“, Past and Present, no. 86 (Feb. I980), pp. 3-8. 2 See A. Marwick, The Natur
14、e of History (London, I970), pp. 97-I30; P. Burke, Sociology and History (London, I980); G. Stedman Jones, “From Historical Socio- iogy to Theoretic History“, Brit.3tl. Sociology, XXVii (I976), pp. 295-305; K. T. Erik- son, “Sociology and the Historical Perspective“, in M. Drake, Applied Historical
15、Studies (London, I 973), pp. I 3-30. NUMBER 87 PAST AND PRESENT 4 tem“, has renewed serious consideration of the possibility of integra- ting historical scholarship and highly generalized social analysis and synthesis. A comprehensive crisis in Marxist thought over the nature of historical materiali
16、sm and the extent to which it is properly his- torical at all has had the usual effect of such crises: a spill of creative energy into neighbouring fields, specifically in this instance to cultivate a sociologically fertilized history or to protect good historical grain from encroaching sociological weeds. At the very least some historians and some sociologists, faced with challenges to their various knowledge claims from within their own disciplines, have turned respectively to sociolog
