Relation between sociology and history ang give ex:!Thank you!?

Question

How they are related?

Answer 1

Sociology is a theoretical understanding of how people behave in groups, while history is an actual narrative (interpretation, really) of how people have actually behaved in the past. There is such a thing as historical sociology - one book would be Karl Polanyi's, "The Great Transformation" - his book was, in part, an account of how the concept of society came into being.

Sociology an history are both social sciences, but they have different assumptions. Although there are definite exceptions to what I am about to say, the difference goes something like this: a sociologist would say that there is no objective account of the past - our understanding of the past is socially shaped and interpreted by the groups that we hang around (whether those groups are our parents, politicians in the media, our friends, etc). Ghanian society would interpret the colonial experience in the 20th Century very differently than British society, because Ghana was the colonized and Britain was the colonizer. Historians, on the other hand, feel that evidence can be gathered and that some kind of objective account of the past can be written. Sociologists are fond of pointing out how historians claims to objectivity could not possibly be true - a British textbook on the American Revolution and an American textbook on the American Revolution are supposedly giving an account of the same events, but you will find that their interpretations are extremely different.