Titlebook: Social History; Problems, Strategies Miles Fairburn Textbook 1999Latest edition Miles Fairburn 1999 Glossar.history.social history

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The Problem of Appropriate Concepts, it should be avoided as much as possible, and that we should strive to examine past people in their own terms, by their own lights, within their own context. Presentism is a form of ethnocentrism; the term ‘historicism’ was invented by nineteenth-century German scholars to denote the opposite of presentism.

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The Problem of Determining the Best Explanation,the three. The problem occurs when several competing explanatory theories are advanced for the . phenomena and we want to know which theory is the ‘best’; that is, which one provides the best . for the . in question.

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Textbook 1999Latest editionms examined include the absence of social categories, fragmenting evidence, the appraisal of rival explanations, the use of socially constructed evidence to substantiate claims about realities, how to avoid presentism and when its practice is justifiable, how to distinguish important causes and how to tell similarities from differences.

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ems and guide the student through solutionsDrawing examples from some of the classic works in the discipline, Miles Fairburn examines the nature, varieties, schools and evolution of social history..Intended for advanced students and practising social historians who see social history as a problem-so

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Introduction,research, and teaching in the English-speaking world. The growing popularity of the subject has brought in its train a large and expanding body of discussion about what social historians have done, what they are doing, and about what they can, might and should do. Although the subject-matter of all

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The Problem of Generalising from Fragmentary Evidence,examples. The method gives rise to perhaps the best known of all the seven problems discussed in this book. The problem goes under a variety of names. They include the problem of typicality, the problem of using unrepresentative data, the problem of generalising from the particular, the problem of a

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The Problem of Establishing Important Causes,are trying to explain such problems as . a collectivity or category changed or . it came to acquire a certain attribute and our research of the documents suggests the phenomenon was driven not just by a few but umpteen different causes. How do we establish which of all these causes were the major or

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