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Applied Historical Studies
Michael Drake
其他書名
An Introductory Reader
出版Methuen, Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1973
主題History / GeneralSocial Science / Methodology
ISBN041679100X9780416791006
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eUMwAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The past has much to offer the social scientist, in particular rich caches of data. Applied historical studies are concerned with exploiting these for the benefit of the social scientist, employing methods and forms of presentation familiar to him. Contemporary data such as census enumerators' returns, ballot papers or personnel files, are embargoed by confidentiality rules. Their historical equivalents, however, are readily accessible to the social scientist prepared to cast off the 'parochialism of presentism' and test his models 'by running them through the dimension of time'. Applied Historical Studies: An Introductory Reader shows how historical data have been employed in the fields of economics, demography, sociology, politics and genetics. The problems considered range from those of social mobility, voting behavior, and economic growth to the allocation of resources in education, the population explosion and the forces determining the genetic structure of a community. In his Introduction the editor discusses the general scope and form of applied historical studies. An annotated bibliography provides an academic context for each of the contributions to the Reader, so that the study of them may be carried further.