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المؤلفون: Susan Boslego Carter
المصدر: Social Science History. 40:535-563
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 06 humanities and the arts, Atmosphere (architecture and spatial design), Democracy, 0506 political science, 060104 history, Presentation, Civility, Multidisciplinary approach, 050602 political science & public administration, Geographic regions, Social Science History Association, Criticism, 0601 history and archaeology, Sociology, Social science, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), media_common
الوصف: Multidisciplinary conversations are tough. Language, habits of thinking, and styles of presentation and criticism differ profoundly across disciplines. Academic rewards to multidisciplinary research are unpredictable. Yet year after year, for 40 years running now, the Social Science History Association (SSHA) has hosted increasingly large, multidisciplinary conferences that attract scholars from a diverse set of academic fields and geographic regions. By fostering debate in an atmosphere of civility, respect, and inclusiveness, the SSHA has become a premiere venue for introducing the latest in social scientific topics, methods, and data. Here I salute the founders and guardians of the culture responsible for this impressive achievement with a multidisciplinary foray into the history of America's chop suey craze of the early twentieth century. Like the remarkable history of the SSHA, the history of chop suey illustrates the importance of civility, respect, and democratic inclusiveness in fostering innovation. It is a story that celebrates the rewards to institutions that promote such virtues.
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المؤلفون: Anne E. C. McCants
المصدر: Social Science History. 40:525-534
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, 05 social sciences, Context (language use), 06 humanities and the arts, 0506 political science, 060104 history, Politics, Nothing, 050602 political science & public administration, Social Science History Association, 0601 history and archaeology, Social science, Fall of man, Contingency, Discipline, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Period (music)
الوصف: It has been almost 40 years since Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie published an English translation of his (at the time) deeply unsettling essay, “Motionless History,” in the second issue of Social Science History (SSH, Winter 1977). For many historians, whose livelihoods depended on narrating the “march of history,” his claim that long periods of history were characterized by a distinct absence of change—his example was Europe from late antiquity up to the early eighteenth century—was nothing short of heretical. The newly established SSH was, however, an entirely logical place from which to launch this fusillade against the disciplinary norms of the Anglo-American historical profession, as the journal was the product of a contra-establishment project, the Social Science History Association (SSHA). Founded in 1974 and hosting its first annual conference in Philadelphia in the fall of 1976, the SSHA emerged out of the more general social and political ferment of that period. Its organizers had the specific intention to disrupt (to use our word and not theirs) what they thought were the rigid practices and limited vision of the then American Historical Association. In so doing they hoped to make space for a new kind of historical enquiry that had much to learn from the social sciences, and hoped to teach them something in return. They were joined in that enthusiastic moment by historically minded rebels from the American Sociological Association, as well as small numbers of anthropologists, demographers, economists, geographers, and political scientists who were all eager to incorporate both historical context and a theoretical appreciation of contingency into their work. In the intervening years since that hopeful beginning, many have argued that the anticipated interdisciplinary exchange failed in one way or another. But let me not get ahead of myself.
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المؤلفون: Anne Kelly Knowles
المصدر: Social Science History. 40:741-750
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, Root (linguistics), Geographic information system, business.industry, 05 social sciences, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 0507 social and economic geography, 02 engineering and technology, Scholarship, Conceptual framework, Social Science History Association, Sociology, Social science, business, 050703 geography, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), 021101 geological & geomatics engineering, Interdisciplinarity, Visual culture
الوصف: The interdisciplinary field of historical geographic information systems (HGIS) took root and flourished at the Social Science History Association (SSHA) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This essay first recounts the growth of HGIS at SSHA and beyond. It then considers challenges that GIS continues to pose for historians and other scholars, such as the unfamiliarity of its conceptual framework and the time and expense often involved in building HGIS databases. The bare-bones visual culture ofSocial Science Historymay inhibit submissions by HGIS scholars, whose work typically includes color maps. Yet the enduring methodological and interdisciplinary interests of SSHA members provide a strong basis for continuing involvement by historians who use GIS. The essay closes with new directions in HGIS scholarship, including study of empirical uncertainty, historical gazetteers, textual analysis linked to GIS mapping, and comparison of topology and topography.
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المؤلفون: Lynn Hollen Lees
المصدر: Social Science History. 40:575-581
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, 05 social sciences, 06 humanities and the arts, Intellectual history, 0506 political science, 060104 history, Urban history, Quantitative history, Political history, 050602 political science & public administration, Openness to experience, Social Science History Association, Social history, 0601 history and archaeology, Sociology, Social science, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
الوصف: Social historians formed an important part of the Social Science History Association from its early days, and they widened its intellectual space beyond initial emphases on political history and quantitative methods. Lee Benson and other faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Charles and Louise Tilly, were particularly influential in attracting a broad mix of scholars to the group. The openness of the association and its interdisciplinarity appealed to younger scholars, and those interested in the “new urban history” were early recruits. A growing number of women, many of whom were social historians, participated in the first conventions and newly organized networks.
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المؤلفون: Donna Gabaccia
المصدر: Social Science History. 34:1-12
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, Spacetime, 05 social sciences, Media studies, 06 humanities and the arts, Space (commercial competition), Miami, 0506 political science, 060104 history, Periodization, 050602 political science & public administration, Social Science History Association, 0601 history and archaeology, Narrative, Sociology, Social science, Discipline, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Theme (narrative)
الوصف: The theme for the 2008 Social Science History Association conference was “It’s about Time.” By surveying the program and panels on offer in Miami, the presidential address instead asked, “Is it about time?” Location and space figured more centrally than time in the titles of the conference’s many papers. Still, two conceptions of time were prominent features of the program. For some scholars, the past is like a foreign country; it can be compared to the present. For even more of the 2008 presenters, however, interest in time meant a concern with process. The analysis of time reflected on the program seemed to have developed along disciplinary lines. Historians and life-course sociologists analyzed time through narratives, time lines, or periodization. Sociologists dominated the theorization of time as sequential. Time geographers were most explicit in relating time and space, mainly in micro-level analyses. How to visualize and represent time in two dimensions remained an unsettled matter; some disciplines imagined timed processes as narrow or broad (represented along an x-axis), while others analyzed them as shallow or deep (represented along a y-axis). Scholars working with timed media, such as video, may have insights into how to overcome this representational roadblock.
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المؤلفون: David I. Kertzer
المصدر: Social Science History. 33:1-16
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, 060101 anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural anthropology, Anthropology, 05 social sciences, 0507 social and economic geography, Social anthropology, 06 humanities and the arts, Four field approach, Applied anthropology, 050701 cultural studies, Quantitative history, Sociocultural anthropology, Social Science History Association, 0601 history and archaeology, Sociology, Social science, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
الوصف: In the 1970s, when the social science history movement emerged in the United States, leading to the founding of the Social Science History Association, a simultaneous movement arose in which historians looked to cultural anthropology for inspiration. Although both movements involved historians turning to social sciences for theory and method, they reflected very different views of the nature of the historical enterprise. Cultural anthropology, most notably as preached by Clifford Geertz, became a means by which historians could find a theoretical basis in the social sciences for rejecting a scientific paradigm. This article examines this development while also exploring the complex ways cultural anthropology has embraced—and shunned—history in recent years.
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المؤلفون: Leslie Page Moch
المصدر: Social Science History. 28:1-18
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, media_common.quotation_subject, Immigration, Gender studies, Fertility, Politics, Presidential address, Political economy, Political science, Social Science History Association, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), media_common, Theme (narrative), Qualitative research
الوصف: The theme of this year’s meeting, “International Perspectives on Social Science History,” rises out of two realities. The first is the recognized international character of phenomena under study, such as fertility decline, political contention, family strategies in response to changing conditions, gendered work, migration, labor, and policing. The second is the way in which the Social Science History Association (SSHA) operates across borders and among scholars in the Americas, Europe, and Asia to investigate common scholarly problems. The attention of migration scholars is now focused on global movements of people and international migrations, particularly immigration. The politics and policies of receiving newcomers are very important now–in the Americas and in Europe. The SSHA is giving its attention to the old and new international immigrants to the United States, as in last year’s session on Nancy Foner’s fine book on New York,From Ellis Island to JFK(2000), and the presidential address by Caroline Brettell (2002) on the quantitative and qualitative methods by which we can understand human movement.
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المؤلفون: Gordon Wood, Robert Churchill, Edward Cook, James Lindgren, Wilbur Miller, Eric Monkkonen, Randolph Roth
المصدر: Social Science History. 26:699-708
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, media_common.quotation_subject, Public debate, Gun control, Criminology, Economic Justice, Convention, Homicide, Law, Political science, Unemployment, Mainstream, Social Science History Association, Social science, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), media_common
الوصف: At the fall 2001 Social Science History Association convention in Chicago, the Crime and Justice network sponsored a forum on the history of gun ownership, gun use, and gun violence in the United States. Our purpose was to consider how social science historians might contribute nowand in the future to the public debate over gun control and gun rights. To date, we have had little impact on that debate. It has been dominated by mainstream social scientists and historians, especially scholars such as Gary Kleck, John Lott, and Michael Bellesiles, whose work, despite profound flaws, is politically congenial to either opponents or proponents of gun control. Kleck and Mark Gertz (1995), for instance, argue on the basis of their widely cited survey that gun owners prevent numerous crimes each year in theUnited States by using firearms to defend themselves and their property. If their survey respondents are to be believed, American gun owners shot 100,000 criminals in 1994 in selfdefense–a preposterous number (Cook and Ludwig 1996: 57–58; Cook and Moore 1999: 280–81). Lott (2000) claims on the basis of his statistical analysis of recent crime rates that laws allowing private individuals to carry concealed firearms deter murders, rapes, and robberies, because criminals are afraid to attack potentially armed victims. However, he biases his results by confining his analysis to the years between 1977 and 1992, when violent crime rates had peaked and varied little from year to year (ibid.: 44–45). He reports only regression models that support his thesis and neglects to mention that each of those models finds a positive relationship between violent crime and real income, and an inverse relationship between violent crime and unemployment (ibid.: 52–53)–implausible relationships that suggest the presence of multicollinearity, measurement error, or misspecification. Lott then misrepresents his results by claiming falsely that statistical methods can distinguish in a quasi-experimental way the impact of gun laws from the impact of other social, economic, and cultural forces (ibid.: 26, 34–35; Guterl 1996). Had Lott extended his study to the 1930s, the correlation between gun laws and declining homicide rates that dominates his statistical analysis would have disappeared. An unbiased study would include some consideration of alternative explanations and an acknowledgment of the explanatory limits of statistical methods.
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المؤلفون: Harvey J. Graff
المصدر: Social Science History. 25:483-533
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, Shock (economics), Social Science History Association, Social science, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Theme (narrative)
الوصف: At this meeting, we celebrate 25 years of the Social Science History Association, the SSHA.With appreciation from all of us, I acknowledge the achievements of our founders and our long-time members. We stand on their shoulders metaphorically and historically. We mark this anniversary with a plenary president's “founder’s session,” a variety of retrospective and prospective panels, and the conference theme “looking backward and looking forward.” We also commemorate more than 25 years of groundbreaking research and recognition of the presence and practice of social science historians along the hallowed halls of history and social science departments—even if it has not always been accompanied by a readywelcome orcomplete acceptance. (We mark no fewer years of controversy.)
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المؤلفون: Andrew Abbott
المصدر: Social Science History. 23:481-489
مصطلحات موضوعية: History, Descriptive statistics, Phenomenon, Social Science History Association, Medical prescription, Social science, Psychology, Indexicality, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Task (project management)
الوصف: When one is asked to speak on the past, present, and future of social science history, one is less overwhelmed by the size of the task than confused by its indexicality. Whose definition of social science history? Which past? Or, put another way, whose past? Indeed, which and whose present? Moreover, should the task be taken as one of description, prescription, or analysis? Many of us might agree on, say, a descriptive analysis of the past of the Social Science History Association. But about the past of social science history as a general rather than purely associational phenomenon, we might differ considerably. The problem of description versus prescription only increases this obscurity.
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