16 Facts About Social history

Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past.

Older social history included numerous topics that were not part of the mainstream historiography of political, military, diplomatic and constitutional history.

Social history was contrasted with political history, intellectual history and the history of great men.

However, after 1990 social history was increasingly challenged by cultural history, which emphasizes language and the importance of beliefs and assumptions and their causal role in group behavior.

Ethnic Social history is especially important in the US and Canada, where major encyclopedias helped define the field.

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Social history recommends a more extensive and critical engagement with the kinds of comparative, transnational and global concerns increasingly popular among labour historians elsewhere, and calls for a revival of public and political interest in the topics.

Women's Social history exploded into prominence in the 1970s, and is well represented in every geographical topic; increasingly it includes gender Social history.

Social history uses the approach of women's history to understand the experiences of ordinary women, as opposed to "Great Women, " in the past.

Gender Social history focuses on the categories, discourses and experiences of femininity and masculinity as they develop over time.

In recent years most histories of education deal with institutions or focus on the ideas histories of major reformers, but a new social history has recently emerged, focused on who were the students in terms of social background and social mobility.

Burchardt evaluates the state of modern English rural Social history and identifies an "orthodox" school, focused on the economic Social history of agriculture.

Social history has used a much wider range of sources and methods than traditional history and source criticism, in order to gain a broader view of the past.

Social history has dominated French historiography since the 1920s, thanks to the central role of the Annales School.

Social history developed within West German historiography during the 1950s-60s as the successor to the national history discredited by National Socialism.

Marxist historiography collapsed and social history came into its own, especially the study of the demographic patterns of the early modern period.

Social history had a "golden age" in Canada in the 1970s, and continues to flourish among scholars.