Relationship Between Sociology and History
Sociology and History are very much interrelated. 
The two sciences are so close that some writers like G. Von Bulow refused to accept sociology as a science different from history.
History: History is the reconstruction of man’s past. It is the story of the experience of man­kind. It is a record of the human past. It is a systematic record of man’s life and achievements from the dim past to the present.  The historian is interested in what happened at a particular time in the past.
Sociology: Sociology as a science of society, on the other hand is interested in the present. It also studies the historical development of societies. It studies various stages of human life, modes of living, customs, manners and their expression.Sociology has thus to depend upon history for its material. History with its record of various social events of the past offers data and facts to sociologists.A sociologist is, no doubt, concerned with the present-day society. But the present-day society can be better understood from the knowledge of its past because what people are today is because of what they had been in the past.


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