PSYC 4008 Chapter : Psych 4008
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Both considered the notion of historiography: the study of how you write a history, histories are selective, you have to pick and chose what is important and drop the rest, historians want to avoid bias, presentism vs. historicism. Is it better to try to describe an event objectively or subjectively. Presentism can be condescending- we have the highest state of knowledge, but an advantage is that as data begins to accumulate, we can have insight into past events and how people of the past interpreted their situations. Historicism can miss insights if we don"t place ourselves in the context of the time. Books lean more toward historicism: internal vs. Describing historical change is a process of identifying important people: naturalistic history. One that points out things like unconscious motivator factors. This idea came from a german ____ Looking at external factors-factors that shape the internal changes: zeitgeist/ortgeist. Zeitgeist-means time in german (geist- spirit/climate: industrial revolution.
