The Historical Method in Social Science
Author | : Michael Moïssey Postan |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
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Author | : Michael Moïssey Postan |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
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Author | : M. M. Postan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107635594 |
Originally published in 1939, this volume contains an inaugural lecture delivered by M. M. Postan at the University of Cambridge.
Author | : Matthew Lange |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1446291286 |
This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative-historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including: - comparative-historical analysis, - case-based methods, - comparative methods - data, case selection and theory. Matthew Lange has written a fresh, easy to follow introduction which showcases classic analyses, offers clear methodological examples and describes major methodological debates. It is a comprehensive, grounded book which understands the learning and research needs of students and researchers.
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Author | : William H. Sewell Jr. |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2009-07-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226749193 |
While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History argues that both history and the social sciences have something crucial to offer each other. While historians do not think of themselves as theorists, they know something social scientists do not: how to think about the temporalities of social life. On the other hand, while social scientists’ treatments of temporality are usually clumsy, their theoretical sophistication and penchant for structural accounts of social life could offer much to historians. Renowned for his work at the crossroads of history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, Sewell argues that only by combining a more sophisticated understanding of historical time with a concern for larger theoretical questions can a satisfying social theory emerge. In Logics of History, he reveals the shape such an engagement could take, some of the topics it could illuminate, and how it might affect both sides of the disciplinary divide.
Author | : Nancy Partner |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848600429 |
The SAGE Handbook of Historical Theory introduces the foundations of modern historical theory and the applications of theory to a full range of sub-fields of historical research, bringing the reader as up to date as possible with continuing debates and current developments. The book is divided into three key parts, covering: - Part I. Foundations: The Theoretical Grounds for Knowledge of the Past - Part II. Applications: Theory-Intensive Areas in History - Part III. Coda. Post-Postmodernism: Directions and Interrogations. This important handbook brings together, in one volume, discussions of modernity, empiricism, deconstruction, narrative and postmodernity in the continuing evolution of the historical discipline into our post-postmodern era. Chapters are written by leading academics from around the world and cover a wide array of specialized areas of the discipline, including social history, intellectual history, gender, memory, psychoanalysis and cultural history. The influence of major thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Hayden White is fully examined. This handbook is an essential resource for practising historians, and students of history, and will appeal to scholars in related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities who seek a closer understanding of the theoretical foundations of history.
Author | : Michael Lewis-Beck |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780761923633 |
Featuring over 900 entries, this resource covers all disciplines within the social sciences with both concise definitions & in-depth essays.
Author | : Y. Topolski |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401011230 |
No discipline has been more praised or more criticized than the writing of history. Cioero claimed that history teaches men how to live. Aris totle denied it the very name of science and regwded poetry as the higher wisdom. At various times history has been assigned a command ing or a demeaning statIUs in the hierarchy of sciences. Today one can admire the increasing precision and sophistication of the methods used by historia:ns. On the other hand, Thucydides' History of the PeZo ponesian War still serves as the ideal model of how to reconstruct the historical past. Even those who deny the possibility of an objective reconstruction of the past would themselves likie to be recorded by historians, "objectively" or not. Dislike of history and fear of its verdict are not incompatible with reverence and awe for its practitioners, the historians. So man's attitude to history is ambiguous. The controversy about history continues. Widely differing issues are at stake. Historians themselves, however, are the least engaged in the struggle. Rarely does a historian decide to open the door of his study and join in the melee about the meaning of history. More often he slams it shut and returns to his studies, oblivious of the fact that with the passage of thne the gap between his scientific work and its audience might widen. The historian does not shun the battle, he merely chooses his own battleground.
Author | : Michael Moïssey Postan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1971-01-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521078412 |
A collection of fourteen essays in which Professor Postan draws together for the first time his contributions to the debate on historical method, and discusses from a variety of different angles, the inter-relation of history and the social sciences. After making, in his first three essays, a direct statement of his point of view, the author deals with two main aspects of the subject: time sequences and theoretical relevance of facts. He then proceeds to exemplify his point of view more particularly with relation to macro-economics and to certain specific issues within economic history as well as to economic history in general. In the final two chapters, one is on Karl Marx, the other on Hugh Gaitskell, he seeks to describe the intellectual climate in which the debate on methodology was held and in which his opinions on the subject were formed. The essays contained in this book will be of interest to all those involved in the social sciences, economics and history, as well as to those specifically concerned with historical methodology.