POLI 2P80 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Comparative Historical Research, Institute Of Historical Research, Marriage Records
27 Nov 2015
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It may explain or help to clarify present and future trends. It enables understanding of and may even provide solutions to contemporary problems. It can illuminate the effects of key interactions within a culture or sub-culture. It allows for the revaluation of date in relation to selected hypotheses, theories and generalizations that are presently help about the past and the present. Historical researcher may or may not be comparative in capture. Occurs when 2 or more case studies, people, places, theories, time periods are studied in a direct comparison. Typically there are either common or drastically different which either unite two cases/individuals or separate them. Historical research need not be comparative, though often is. Comparative is often considered a methodology and not necessarily a school. Ex/ a human rights scholar can employ a comparative method in their. Comparisons are either synchronic (a snapshot in time) or diachronic (across.
