SOC387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Institute Of Historical Research
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Soc387: lecture 7 - social historical research and oral traditions. Explaining what is going on and happened in the past. Focus on the relationships between people, meaning, certain historical events and other social phenomenon. Better understanding of human behaviour, social behaviour etc. Accumulating historical data: primary sources, looking at artifacts from the historical event, secondary sources, oral and written testimony of people who are not present at the given event, textbook, encyclopedia, newspaper articles. Things to be aware of: whether the documents or accounts are authentic, the motive of the documents author. Here, you must also analyze the author"s purpose in creating a document or historical account. So questions you must ask are the following: who created the documents, why did she or he create the document, are there reasons for bias in the creation of the document or. Accuracy issues: people sometimes portray things in a positive light when they"re a lot older in age.
