Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works

This article analyzes the underlying aspects of the artistic heritage of M.M. Khvostov, an eminent professor at Imperial Kazan University. The focus is on the justification of the need for creating sociological history as a new type of explanatory history. The scholar’s coherent and consistent conce...

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Main Authors: M.V. Novikov, T.B. Perfilova
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Published: Kazan Federal University 2022-12-01
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description This article analyzes the underlying aspects of the artistic heritage of M.M. Khvostov, an eminent professor at Imperial Kazan University. The focus is on the justification of the need for creating sociological history as a new type of explanatory history. The scholar’s coherent and consistent concept of sociological history was never introduced to the public, but its basics were laid and described in his publications and lecture courses. In this concept, history was qualified as an individualizing and idiographic study and sociology as a generalizing and nomothetic one. As a result of having stemmed from the belief in the unity of scientific methodology, M.M. Khvostov placed a greater emphasis on the overlapping of the subject fields and cognitive positions of these sociological branches rather than on their opposition. In order to overcome the opposition between the typological and concrete individual ways of comprehending historical reality, he proposed their theoretical and methodological synthesis on the principle of complementarity of tasks, research approaches, and methods. Therefore, the process of cognition was thought to involve studying unique facts, using the comparative historical method, as well as identifying common, similar, and typical features. The results obtained here are important for developing the theoretical and methodological foundations of historical science: M.M. Khvostov insisted that sociological history was destined to fill the existing abstract sociological schemes with reliable historical information, to contribute to the conceptualization of critically cited facts related to the multifaceted process of historical transformations of society.
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spelling doaj-art-b6579dacfe04473db8c01fe3badce2fb2025-08-20T02:44:03ZengKazan Federal UniversityУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки2541-77382500-21712022-12-01164692910.26907/2541-7738.2022.6.9-29Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's worksM.V. Novikov0T.B. Perfilova1Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushinsky, Yaroslavl, 150000 RussiaYaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushinsky, Yaroslavl, 150000 RussiaThis article analyzes the underlying aspects of the artistic heritage of M.M. Khvostov, an eminent professor at Imperial Kazan University. The focus is on the justification of the need for creating sociological history as a new type of explanatory history. The scholar’s coherent and consistent concept of sociological history was never introduced to the public, but its basics were laid and described in his publications and lecture courses. In this concept, history was qualified as an individualizing and idiographic study and sociology as a generalizing and nomothetic one. As a result of having stemmed from the belief in the unity of scientific methodology, M.M. Khvostov placed a greater emphasis on the overlapping of the subject fields and cognitive positions of these sociological branches rather than on their opposition. In order to overcome the opposition between the typological and concrete individual ways of comprehending historical reality, he proposed their theoretical and methodological synthesis on the principle of complementarity of tasks, research approaches, and methods. Therefore, the process of cognition was thought to involve studying unique facts, using the comparative historical method, as well as identifying common, similar, and typical features. The results obtained here are important for developing the theoretical and methodological foundations of historical science: M.M. Khvostov insisted that sociological history was destined to fill the existing abstract sociological schemes with reliable historical information, to contribute to the conceptualization of critically cited facts related to the multifaceted process of historical transformations of society.https://kpfu.ru/uz-eng-hum-2022-6-1.htmlpositivismneo-kantianismnomothetic and ideographic sciencesgeneralizing and individualizing methodshistorysociologysociological historyfactor approachhistorical determinismtheoretical and methodological synthesis
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Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
positivism
neo-kantianism
nomothetic and ideographic sciences
generalizing and individualizing methods
history
sociology
sociological history
factor approach
historical determinism
theoretical and methodological synthesis
title Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works
title_full Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works
title_fullStr Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works
title_full_unstemmed Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works
title_short Sociological discourse in M.M. Khvostov's works
title_sort sociological discourse in m m khvostov s works
topic positivism
neo-kantianism
nomothetic and ideographic sciences
generalizing and individualizing methods
history
sociology
sociological history
factor approach
historical determinism
theoretical and methodological synthesis
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