Socjologia historyczna Raymonda Arona

Abstract

Any sociological analysis investigating the present without the historical context becomes an empty shell of science and loses its influence on the study of social mechanisms operating continuously at various times and places. Aron’s interdisciplinarity is best expressed by variety of disciplines he has practiced. Lucien Febrey described him as an economist, a sociologist and a politician, while emphasizing the powerful influence he has exerted on historians too. Moreover Aron is also remembered as an efficient commentator — intellectual. The aim of the study is to examine how Aron used the principles of historical sociology in his sociological research. Was his work a historical sociology or not? The answer is substantial not only in terms of history of sociology but also to settle whether Aron’s sociological legacy can be used today as a sort of pathway to put the sociology out of the crisis resulting from its Industrial Age roots.