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Article: The old social history and the new social sciences.
- Article from:
- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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While social historians in the United States have begun to look at the new cultural history as a source for inspiration and ideas for new research, they have largely ignored new developments within the other social sciences. It is my aim to survey some of these new ideas and see how they can relate to social history. It is obvious from my essay that I still believe that history, and above all social history, is a fundamental part of the social sciences. Especially with its concern for analyzing the evolution of institutions, classes and groups of people over time, as well as explaining individual human behavior in social contexts, social history is fundamentally a social ...