Meaning of Order – Order of History

Social theories conceived in the modern epoch of history are interested both in the history of order and in the order of history, by systematically grasping our recent situation. The paper discusses the most influential paradigms of relating historical process and abstract theory, focusing besides Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann on the most historical concept of Max Weber. What is at stake for sociology, is the orientation of the present, as possible for us who are involved in it.