The Old Social History and the New Social Sciences
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The history of sociology has been one of borrowing and synthesizing methods and theoretical frameworks form sister disciplines in largely a reciprocal fashion. While these transitions are often well documented and attributed to a progression towards an 'improved' sociology, a recent increasing...
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- The social function of history. Florescano, Enrique // Diogenes;1994, Vol. 42 Issue 4, p41
Discusses the social function of history. Function of historical record to endow people with identity; Importance of the immersion to the past through history; Social roles of historians; Benefits provided by historical analysis; Problems associated with placing historical understanding on the...
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- THE SOLUTION CYCLE OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Reissman, Leonard // American Sociologist;Feb72, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p7
This article aims not to speculate upon the delay in recognition but, instead, to shorten the delay by bringing to the attention of sociologists the remarkable advance they have achieved in solving social problems. Naturally, this discovery is not a simple, single datum or object like the...
- Preface to Selections from Contemporary Western Historiographical Schools, 1982. Rukang, Tian; Chongyuan, Jin // Chinese Studies in History;Spring/Summer2005, Vol. 38 Issue 3/4, p15
The article is a preface to one of the earliest anthologies of translated materials on historical thought--Selections from Contemporary Western Historiographical Schools--edited by Tian Rukang and Jin Chongyuan and published by Shanghai People's Press in 1982. In telling the background to this...
