History Among Other Social Sciences

Social Sciences (Minneapolis), Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 28-42, 2008

23 Pages Posted: 11 Feb 2013

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Irina Savelieva

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Andrei Poletayev

Russian Economic Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP); Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) - Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Suggested Citation

Savelieva, Irina and Poletayev, Andrei, History Among Other Social Sciences (February 10, 2013). Social Sciences (Minneapolis), Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 28-42, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2214642

Irina Savelieva (Contact Author)

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) ( email )

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Andrei Poletayev

Russian Economic Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP) ( email )

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101000 Moscow
Russia

Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) - Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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Moscow GSP-7, 117997
Russia

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