Research Committees
RC56 Historical Sociology
Founded in 2003
Established as Working Group on Historical and Comparative Sociology in 2010; as Research Committee on Historical Sociology in 2016.
Objectives
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 modernizing 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.
Board 2023 - 2027
| President | Paddy DOLAN, Technological University Dublin, Ireland, paddy.dolan@tudublin.ie |
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| Vice-President | Robert VAN KRIEKEN, University of Sydney, Australia, robert.van.krieken@sydney.edu.au |
| Secretary/Treasurer | Fabio SANTOS, Free University of Berlin, Germany, fabio.santos@fu-berlin.de |
| Online Communication Manager | Lucy BROWN, Charles University, Czech Republic, brownlucy112@gmail.com |
| Board Members | Mohammed BAMYEH, University of Pittsburgh, USA Vilna BASHI, Northwestern University, USA Nina BAUR, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Manuela BOATCA, University of Freiburg, Germany Stephen MENNELL, University College Dublin, Ireland Fumiya ONAKA, Japan Women's University, Japan Sujata PATEL, University of Hyderabad, India Jiri SUBRT, Charles University, Czech Republic |
Program Coordinators for 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 are:
Fabio SANTOS, fabio.santos@fu-berlin.de
Paddy DOLAN, paddy.dolan@tudublin.ie
Membership
Dues for a 4-year period:
| Membership | |
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| Supporter | USD 80 |
| Regular A | USD 20 |
| Regular B and C | USD 10 |
| Student | USD 10 |
One-time fee for Life Members (70+).
| Life | |
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| Supporter Member | USD 80 |
| Category A, B and C | USD 10 |
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