SOC323H5 Lecture Notes - Bute Inlet
Document Summary
History as a methodology to explore law and society relationship: historiography: how history is written. Look at it with a critical eye and how is it done. Written documents and a comprehensive look at documents from that time. Looking at big singular interesting cases were odd things happens used to extract meaning: such as colonial meaning or colonial identity. Reliant on recorded work instead of word of mouth since they will be deceased. ** not telling a story on what exactly happened use evidence in diff things. Negotiate between them or understand that evidence shouldn"t be taken for granted and don"t take it as face value. History is a discourse about but fundamentally different from the past. History is more of a story not so argumentative. Usually buried in the footnotes usually explains what they are trying to argue: history as a story".
