Jedno moguće sociološko promišljanje o naciji i etnicitetu

Već dulje vrijeme, najmanje od vremena Annalesa govorimo o konvergenciji sociologije i historiografije. U članku autorica dokazuje koliko može biti plodno međusobno sudjelovanje obiju ukoliko je predmet istraživanja suvremeni etnicitet (ethnic revival), nacija i nacionalizam. Preispituje se analitički aparat klasične historiografije i sociologije sa stanovišta moderniteta; pokušava se dokazati da se sociologija lišava pomalo opsesije »strukturom« i funkcijom a historiografija »vremenskim slijedom« događaja, te da njihovo međusobno približavanje na materijalu istraživanja etničkog i nacionalnoga može uroditi plodom novih teorijskih postignuća. Ta bi se postignuća mogla temeljiti na: preuzimanju poimanja vremenosti i vremensko-prostorne analize iz suvremene historiografije u sociologiju te na preuzimanju poimanja strukture i funkcije iz sociologije u historiografiju.
For quite some time, at least ever since the days of Annales, we have referred to a convergence of sociology and historiography. The author of the article provides proof of how fruitful a joint participation of both of these can be if ethnic revival, nation and nationalism are subjects of research. The analytical apparatus of traditional historiography and sociology is re-examined from the standpoint of modernity: attempts are made to prove that sociology is gradually giving up its obsession with »structure« and function, while historiography is abandoning the »time sequence« of events, and that their getting together on the research material of ethnicity and of what is pertaining to nation can yield new theory-related achievements. The achievements might be based on the following: taking over from modern historiography into sociology the understanding of temporalness and of the temporal-spatial analysis, as well as taking over from sociology into historiography the understanding of structure and function.