🎯 UPSC Mains 2025 (Sociology) | Questions Directly Covered in VisionIAS Optionals Subject

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[00:00:01][music] >> That is why uh even you can say when it comes to sociology and history, they are very much interconnected >> [music] >> in a way because obviously uh without having historical com- continuity and comparison, perhaps there is no point of understanding society.

[00:00:22]You need to understand how societies have evolved. Remember Herbert Spencer, contemporary fossils?

[00:00:28]That we should try to understand that how institutions have emerged.

[00:00:32]>> [music] >> So, we cannot conclude that how these social institutions has emerged unless and until we are having historical comparison with sociological imagination.

[00:00:45]Making sense? So, that's how sociology and history are interconnected [music] and you can say if it most of the historians these days are those >> [music] >> who are using these things uh more than often and that's why, you know, looking at various societies [music] uh in the historical context, how they were, how we have evolved, we are using what? Various sociological imaginations >> [music] >> to understand that how various institutions has emerged, how they have changed, what were the reason why have changed, what were the factors responsible for what they have changed.

[00:01:21]So, this way we got when we talk about uh what is called so, history is something which you can say more normative, uh is descriptive, while sociology for that matter is more >> [music] >> analytical.