Становление теории социальных изменений

On the one hand creating the theory of social change was connected with separation sociology trom philosophy. Sociological notions and categories started to differ from philosophical ones. On the other hand creating the theory was a long process of loosing the old, „progressive" paradigm of social research and creating scientific paradigm by understanding and explaining its specific features. This process influenced the change of forms and methods of the very sociological theorizing. That is why the theory of social change could be used as methodology or metatheory for researches in sociology as such or its particular fields, for example theory of social conflict.