Editing Transhistoricity (section)

== In sociopolitical theory ==
Questions of what might and might not be transhistorical phenomena are typically the concern of historians and sociologists identifying with the [[Historicism|historicist]] traditions of [[Hegel]]ian or [[Karl Marx|Marxian]] thought, but matter additionally in the debates around [[Thomas Kuhn|Kuhn]]'s notion of [[paradigm shift]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-10|title=Toward a critique of political economy {{!}} MR Online|url=https://mronline.org/2020/12/10/toward-a-critique-of-political-economy/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=mronline.org|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Feenberg, Andrew. (2003). Modernity theory and technology studies: Reflections on bridging the gap. Modernity and technology. 73.</ref>

[[Fredric Jameson]], a [[Marxist]] literary theorist, asserted that theory must "Always historicize!", going on to observe that this order was itself a "transhistorical imperative".<ref>Jameson, Fredric (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9xE6vLE71yUC&q=%22the+political+unconscious%22+books ''The Political Unconscious'']. Cornell University Press.</ref>

Others look for transhistorical continuities to inform what's basic to the human condition. For example, D. K. Simonton, finds some regularities in the types of ideas that gain ascendancy following certain types of historical events, in a data series spanning 2,500 years.<ref>Simonton, D. K. (1976). ''The Sociopolitical Context of Philosophical Beliefs: A Transhistorical Causal Analysis''. ''Social Forces''. vol. 54. pp. 513–523.</ref>

In more recent years, research in the vicinity of [[evolutionary psychology]] has proceeded on the basis that some observed [[transculturalism|transcultural]] regularities in human behaviour are also transhistoric, accounted for by their being fixed in the genetic legacy common to all ''Homo sapiens''.