Relationship Between History and Sociology

History is based on written records of unique events like military conflicts, political events, the activities of rulers, the economic changes and more recently the social changes.

• Historical records is a source of data, for historical method used in sociology.
• History gives us information about the develop and growth of social institutions
• Historical methods of study considered of the important method for the study of sociology and is an indicator of the relationship between sociology and history.

Sociology:

1. Sociology is interested in the study of the present social phenomena.
2. It is a young social science It has not even two centuries old.
3. It is based on analytics.
4. It is absorbed in nature. It studies mostly regular, the recurrent and the universal.
5. Sociology is generalizing and seeks to establish generalizations after a careful study of the social phenomena.
6. Sociology follows the sociological approach. It studies human events from the sociological point of view.

History:

1. History deals with past events of humans. It is silent about present
2. It is an age-old social science. It has a long story of more than 2000 years.
3. It is a descriptive science.
4. History is concrete. The historians are interested in the unique, the particular and the individual.
5. History is individualized and rarely makes generalization. It establish the sequence in which events occurs.
6. History studies human events in accordance with the fine order with historical approach.