Descrição
This article addresses methodological questions related to the term Comparative Sociological History, emphasizing two aspects: the meaning of the link between History and Sociology, particularly the assumption of time as an analytical category, and the tie-in between historical approach and comparative method. Disagreements are correlated to prior assumptions about the nature of social phenomena, alluding to tensions between theories and facts.||This article addresses methodological questions related to the term Comparative Sociological History, emphasizing two aspects: the meaning of the link between History and Sociology, particularly the assumption of time as an analytical category, and the tie-in between historical approach and comparative method. Disagreements are correlated to prior assumptions about the nature of social phenomena, alluding to tensions between theories and facts.||O artigo aborda questões metodológicas controversas envolvidas na chamada Sociologia Histórica Comparativa, enfatizando dois aspectos: o significado da vinculação da história à sociologia, particularmente a incorporação do tempo como categoria de análise, e a vinculação de abordagem histórica ao método comparativo. As divergências são relacionadas a suposições prévias sobre a natureza dos fenômenos sociais, remetendo às tensões entre fatos e teorias.
