Publisher's Synopsis
One of the greatest challenges facing historiography is that of intepretating long-term social change, in the knowledge that we have no æismÆ which provides an answer. Only an interdisciplinary approach can enable us to understand this question. The different factors which contribute to social change are manifold and closely interrelated; furthermore, these interrelationships do not always adopt the same configuration. Social change is per se temporal change: both social sciences and history are interrelated in it, and there will always be a fruitful tension between the social-scientific and the historical approach.
