ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The New York Times, Thesis Statement
29 Apr 2018
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ISS210 - Lecture 10: Power in History - Chapter 6
Scientific Method: (hard science)
1. Ask a question
2. Review the literature
3. Hypothesis
4. Theory
5. Design/Conduct study
6. Report results/findings
● Scientist use (Scientific Method) to obtain a General Understanding of the World
○ e.g. Theory, Laws, and Concepts
Historians do these three things:
● Recording- take advantage of records accessible
○ Rely on Original Source Documents (anything left over from the period of study)
■ For Election: e.g. newspapers (Washington Post, NY Times, Wall Street
Journal), debates, social media, TV news, internet news, radio news,
insider documents (critically important), etc.
■ Goal: to get as many perspectives as possible
● Narrating- (from records), tell a story
● Interpreting- figure out and tell us why the story from the records is important
○ Historian use these to explain specific events
From the Book (Power and Society, Harrison 2015):
● Iportat Quote: History is a uedig dialogue betwee the preset ad the past;
it is what oe age fids worthy of ote i aother.
● History and other social scientists are different
● Narrative and Interpretation from author in Chapter 6 (thesis stateet: We
contended that the Constitution and the national government it established reflected
the beliefs, values, and interests of the people of power (the elite) of the new republic
and that a changing elite has continued to exert the influence in the government since
the atio’s foudig Harriso, p. 1. ***
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Document Summary
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