CMN 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Institute Of Historical Research, Content Analysis
28 Nov 2018
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Chapter 9- social historical research and oral traditions. Aka historical event research/ social historical research: examination of elements of history. Method for discovering, from records or other accounts, what happened during some past period. Offer theoretical explanations for various historic events. Attempts to understand and explain social life in historical settings. Study of relationships among issues that have influenced the past, continue to influence the present, and will certainly affect the future. Process that examines events of combinations of events in order to uncover accounts of what happened in the past. Task: to reconstruct the reasons for past actions. An account of some past event or series of events. A field of human action and action as the result of individual and collective reasoning. Historiography: the study of how history is studied and written. Underlying assumption: you can learn about the present from the past.
