Historical Sociology

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Historical Sociology.

• Societal collapse — Describe a sustained, system-wide reduction in a complex society’s political coordination, institutions, population, economic integration, or cultural complexity beyond ordinary crisis and regime turnover.
• World-system — A large-scale socioeconomic system linking multiple polities and regions through a durable division of labor, exchange, power hierarchy, and interdependent historical change.