Abstract: History and the social sciences have developed and maintained complex relationships made up of commonalities and differences as well as divergences and convergences. In principle, both disciplinary areas are concerned with the scientific study of the human life-world and the whole range of human behavior, individual and collective, in time and space as well as in the past and the present. Both disciplinary areas originated, with the rise of the modern world, as a common enterprise to develop systematic, secular, and empirically validated knowledge about the historical-social reality. In this fundamental sense, history can be and should be seen as part of the social sciences or vice versa the social sciences as part of the historical sciences – both constituted by substantially interrelated modes of sociohistorical research (Gulbenkian Commission, 1996; Hall, 1999).
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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