What is the relationship (similarities and differences) between sociology and history in terms of their area of study and methodology? Discuss. (Answer in 150 words)

- What is the relationship (similarities and differences) between sociology and history in terms of their area of study and methodology? Discuss. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
History and sociology work the same ground with different habits.

Body

1. What each studies: Both take social life in time as their object, and neither manages without the other's material — Weber's Protestant Ethic is history, Braudel's longue duree is sociology. History reconstructs the particular event and period; sociology seeks the general pattern and the type, and works on the present, where history stops.

2. How each works: Both read documents critically and select facts by their questions, as E. H. Carr made the historian admit. Sociology adds instruments history cannot use on the dead: surveys, fieldwork, sampling, statistical comparison. The historian's test is the authenticity of a source, the sociologist's the representativeness of a sample.

3. What the comparison settles: The boundary is conventional, not logical. Philip Abrams argued in Historical Sociology that the two are one enterprise, and the strongest work is unclassifiable — Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, or Tilly on state formation.

Conclusion
A division of labour is useful; a division of subject matter is not defensible.