1. Historical method has been employed by Karl Marx (the father of modern scientific socialism) in conjunction with dialectical materialism in understanding the human societies.
2. Marx believed that the materialistic structure of societies (i.e. two classes of the industrial societies i.e. the working class and the capitalists class) accounts for their developmental, and thus, he took the philosophical device and applied to the materialistic view of society.
(i) Antithesis (ii) Thesis
(iii) Synthesis (iv) Variable
(v) Bureaucracy (vi) Organic Analogy
(vii) Capitalism
(i) Concomitant Variation
(ii) Nomothetic
(iii) Conjectural
(iv) Cross-Cultural Method
(v) Dialectical
(vi) Materialism
(vii) Equilibrium
(viii) Manifest Functions
(ix) Ethnographic
(i) Ideal Type
(ii) Latent Functions
(iii) Integration
(iv) Ideographic
(v) Functionalism
