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Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation

, 2005
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
W. Sewell
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Toward a social history of qualitative research

, 2011
There are plausible academic as well as social indicators that qualitative research has become an indispensable part of the methodological repertoire of the social sciences.
G. Jovanović
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Social History

Handbook of Historical Animal Studies, 2021
Mieke Roscher
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FIELD OF DREAMS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF NEUROETHICS

, 2011
Neuroscience, with its promise to peer into the brain and explain the sources of human behavior and human consciousness, has captured the scientific, clinical, and public imaginations.
E. Conrad, R. Vries
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Gender, Women's History, and Social History [PDF]

Social Science History, 1989
Recently, I attended a seminar at which a historian of women presented a dazzling interpretation of the polemical writing of Olympe de Gouges and its (not to mention her) reception during the French Revolution. A crusty old historian of the Revolution rose during the question period and inquired, in his own eastern twang, “Now that I know that women ...
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Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (L'Enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien regime)

History of Education Quarterly, 1964
What was the role of the Catholic colleges in urban social mobility? Why has Pennsylvania a mediocre record in the development of community colleges? What has been the history of Pennsylvania State University's relations with the state legislature and ...
C. Strickland
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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940

, 1993
From the Publisher: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ...
Claude S. Fischer
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The ‘New History’ of the Enlightenment: An Essay in the Social History of Social History

2007
In the last hundred years or so, from the ‘New History’ of James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936) to the ‘New Cultural History’ of the last two or three decades, a number of social and cultural historians have been calling for a new approach to history that would find a space for ordinary people as well as ‘heroes’, for women and children as well as men ...
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History of the Social Sciences

Osiris, 1985
A FORCEFUL ANSWER to the question why anyone should be interested 1A1. in the history of the social sciences in America was provided three decades ago. In his classic The Organization Man (1956), William H. Whyte, Jr., instructed an entire generation in the realities of organizational life in America.
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Economic History as Social History

2021
We saw earlier in this study that the ‘construction yards’ of Italian ‘historical materialism’ made use of materials which derived from a long series of reflections on historical knowledge—ones distinctive of Italian national culture. When it came to ‘economic history’, the lesson passed down by one of the founders of this discipline in Italy, Gino ...
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