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Part 1: The Perspective of Historical Sociology The Path to Historical Sociology History and Sociology Theoretical Dilemmas Part 2: Societies in the Processes of Changes The Dimension of Time Social Change - Different Approaches to its Observation and Analysis Crisis as a Challenge Part 3: Ideas of the Sociological "Founding Fathers" Sociology as a Science of Social Statics and Dynamics The Evolution of the Social Organism Historical Materialism Explaining the Emergence of Capitalism Digression on the Early Rationalization of Time Sociology as a Science About Social Facts A Digression on Collective Memory Part 4: Systems, Structures, and Functions The Social System and Evolution Inequality, Stratification, Mobility Theories of Conflict Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Functional Differentiation and its Consequences World-System Part 5: Civilizational Analysis Civilizing Process Paradigms of Human Condition Civilizations of the Axial Age Part 6: The Modern World, its Formative Processes and Transformations Pathways to Modern Society The Formation of Modern Nations The Dark Side of Modernization Wars, Conflicts and Violence From the First Modernity to the Second Modernity Part 7: The Human Individual and History Individualization in the Perspective of Historical-Sociological Thinking Individualism and Holism Homo Sociologicus Human Individual and His Place in History