DEVELOPMENT AND METATHEORY OF SOCIOLOGY OF REVOLUTIONS. (English)

This paper presents the development of the sociology of revolutions, with emphasis on theories that were created by the mid-20th century, as well as the metatheory of revolutions, i.e. the problem of division of various theories of revolution and different approaches to this social phenomenon. The history and the protosociology of revolutions is presented, including the most important ancient, Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophers, up to Tocqueville and Marx. Furthermore, we present the first stage of the academic study of revolutions, called the natural history of revolutions. In the end, we analyze theories created in the 1950s and 1960s, which include the theories of relative deprivation (psychological theories), the theories of collective action (functionalist theories) as well as the modernization theories in the context of revolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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