Temporality, Structure, and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Historical Sociology and Contemporary Historiography
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Arnaldo Delgado Fernández
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- historical sociology; historiography; interdisciplinarity; temporality; collective memory; social sciences.
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Contemporary political, cultural, technological, and social transformations have renewed the debate on the boundaries between Sociology and History and on the capacity of both disciplines to explain phenomena characterized by multiple temporalities, persistent structures, and processes of change. This article aims to critically analyze the theoretical and methodological convergences between historical sociology and contemporary historiography and, on this basis, to propose an interdisciplinary framework organized around five dimensions: temporality, structure, agency, memory, and scale-context. A qualitative theoretical-documentary study was conducted through a critical and integrative review of classical and contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on contributions published between 2020 and 2026. The analysis identified three major shifts: the transition from disciplinary complementarity to explanatory integration; the expansion of the historiographical object through the categories of memory, identity, power, and agency; and the growing relevance of Latin American approaches and digital resources in the production of sociohistorical knowledge. The main theoretical contribution is a multiscalar articulation framework that enables social phenomena to be analyzed as historical configurations resulting from the interaction of structures, actors, memories, and contexts. It is concluded that the articulation between Sociology and History currently represents an important condition for overcoming both sociological presentism and historiographical descriptivism and for advancing toward relational, comparative, contextualized, and temporally grounded interpretations.
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- 2026-10-31
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