新史學是二十世紀的重要史學運動。新史學家認為傳統以政治、軍事及大人物為主的歷史是片面的、不完整的。那僅是真正歷史這動的表面現象。真正的歷史活動乃產生於事件現象的背後,產生於一系列的深層結構。歷史研究應結合現象與人,走出傳統歷史的政治、軍事框架,直接觀察社會集團、經濟結構等各種層次去把握每一個社會、每一段過去。強調學科之間不應壁壘分明,並優先與其他學科產生對話。新史學許多觀點與方法可與社會學相互為用,本文旨在對新史學的思想及發展做一概述,並從社會整體論、歷史時間觀二個面向討論新史學與社會學的趨同性;最後論述從新史學之:同時代研究、貫時代研究在社會學之可用性。
'New history' is an important historical movement in 20th century. The new historians thought that traditional history is partial because which just focused on politics, military, that's the skin phenomena of the real historical activities. The real historical activities are behind the phenomena of events and they will product a series of deep structure. Historical study should combine the phenomena and the people together, break out the limitation of politics and military in traditional history. Observe every level of the society and economical structure directly. 'New history' stressed that every subject should dialogue to each other. There are many viewpoints in new history could be used in sociological study. This article tried to describe the development of new history, and discussed the characteristics of new history and sociology. Finally, we will discuss how to apply the new historical methods in sociological study.