ABSTRACT
The aim of historical sociology is to render a conceptualized account of societal processes as they actually occur, meaning that the occurrences are considered as an end in themselves, illuminated by theory. History understood by historians is concerned with sequences of events, possibly with a number of sequences that combine to affect that broad stream of events people call a process. History is concerned with identifiable and continuing phenomena, whether the object of investigation is the political history of a nation or the case history of a patient. The important consideration about a historical approach in sociology is that man is the measure. This statement implies that a historically conceived sociology cannot be "scientific" in the sense in which a mathematical statement is scientific. Historical sociology is aware of general theoretical notions, but does not subscribe to a tyrannical theory or adhere to an exclusive methodology.
