Abstract

ZABLUDOVSKY, Gina. Las modernidades y los pioneros de la sociología comparativa: Montesquieu, Tocqueville y Weber. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2007, vol.22, n.64, pp.11-44. ISSN 2007-8358.

This article shows how the origins of comparative historical sociology can be traced to thinkers who developed their ideas between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially Montesquieu, Tocqueville and Weber. Since these authors were more concerned with explaining world diversity than with emphasizing universally homogeneous processes, they could be considered the seminal thinkers of the theories of multiple modernities of our time. Their positions contrast with those of other classics like Comte and Marx, who, in this same period, conceived of the development of society in a more uniform way.

Keywords : sociology; history; modernities; Montesquieu; Tocqueville; Weber.