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International social science journal, XXXIII, 4, p. 596-610; Language. English
Apr 25, 2022 · These meanings fall into seven distinct and incompatible types: (1) logically connected systems of general propositions, (2) explanations of particular social phenomena, (3) interpretations of social phenomena (as in Reed’s), (4) the study of classical texts and authors, (5) highly general perspectives (Weltanschauung) of how to see and interpret the world, (6) normative accounts, and (7 ...
Apr 12, 2002 · The work of Mill, Peirce, and Popper is a resource for philosophers presently exploring the social dimensions of scientific knowledge. However, the current debates are framed in the context of developments in both philosophy of science and in history and social studies of science following the collapse of the logical empiricist consensus.
- The Nature of History
- A Look at Historians
- Some Conclusions and Recommendations
If we are to concentrate on history as social science, we need some sense of what sets history off from other social sciences. The contribution of history is perspective. This is no small matter. It is only too easy and tempting for each generation (especially the more sensitive members of each generation) to see the tests and troubles of its own t...
Does our picture of the historical profession seem exaggerated? What do individual historians say about their conditions? To get some idea, we asked them. In April and May, 1968, the History Panel mailed a short questionnaire to about one thousand regular members of the history departments of twenty-nine American colleges and universities. Over the...
Historians—at least many historians—have not yet learned to live with these uncomfortable intruders on a world of art, intuition, and verbal skill. Hence our concern to stress the fact that we speak here for just one branch of the historical profession and that the changes we recommend are complementary to, rather than competitive with, other branc...
A third justification for the history of social science is provided by Lothar Peter. 14 Modern phenomena such as individualization, secularization, and capitalism may become more invisible as they become more universal, entering common sense and the taken-for-granted. Earlier observers who had a foot in two different social worlds and worldviews may have been able to perceive these nascent ...
history, history on the cheap, a superficial affair which pre-ferred the shadow to the substance. What had to be put in its place was history in depth-an economic, social, and mental history.2 Seen in its historical context, this revolt against political history and the history of events-anything which could be given a date-can
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The emergence of social history had numerous preconditions. First, as a result of the diffusion of enlightenment philosophy, the notion of society as a distinct sphere appeared in Europe in the 18th century. Prior to that, political and social phenomena were generally not clearly distinguished. On the contrary, all members of the
