Two decades ago historical practice in the United States and Europe was challenged by social historians with behaviourist approaches. The approaches of these social historians diverged dramatically from the discipline's traditional preferences for textual evidence, to accounts that explained occurrences in terms of individual intention, and to narrative presentation of results. different approaches including routinely generated accounts of individual behaviour treated quantitatively, explanations made in terms of functional ...
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Two decades ago historical practice in the United States and Europe was challenged by social historians with behaviourist approaches. The approaches of these social historians diverged dramatically from the discipline's traditional preferences for textual evidence, to accounts that explained occurrences in terms of individual intention, and to narrative presentation of results. different approaches including routinely generated accounts of individual behaviour treated quantitatively, explanations made in terms of functional or economically rational behaviour, and presentations that incorporated the social-science formalization of hypothesis and test. history. Today's historical practices, in fact, widely call for actor-centred accounts that are not mentalistic but take into consideration biology and the unconscious; that do not focus upon individuals to the exclusion of groups, markets, cultures, and other socially defined fields of action, and that do so with due regard to the fact of and the limitations upon power in human societies. This is a tall order. discourse employed in that practice. Militantly eclectic historians do not characteristically extract questions of method and discourse from practice. Far more often, they embed their reflections upon how to do historical work in the work itself. Because history as a discipline is classified in the United States as a discipline in the humanities, and because accounts of historical phenomena are often offered in as seamless a fashion as possible, uncluttered with discussions extraneous to the flow of exposition and interpretation, explicit reflections upon how to are commonly left omitted from historical writing.
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