History Among Other Social Sciences
Social Sciences (Minneapolis), Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 28-42, 2008
23 Pages Posted: 11 Feb 2013
Date Written: February 10, 2013
Abstract
The position of history in the realm of social sciences has been treated thoroughly in recent Western and Russian historiography. Mostly research was concentrated on historiographical “turns”. In consideration of substantial efforts devoted to 'historiographical turns', we propose more general analysis to show the relationship between history, social sciences and humanities, the diversity of interdisciplinary interaction models.
The suggested analysis of specificity of historical knowledge consists of four successive problems. The relationship between history and other types of knowledge, foremost non-scientific (philosophy, arts, ideology, religion, etc); the nature of distinctions between history and other social sciences; the scientific foundations of history, that is its similarity to social sciences; models of interaction between history and other social sciences.
The novelty of suggested approach consists of application of sociology of knowledge theory for innovative analysis of historical epistemology, and consecutive investigation of the relationship between history and other forms of knowledge about the past.
Keywords: history, forms of knowledge, social sciences and humanities, historical epistemology, models of interaction, distinction, similarity
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