Social history
Social history is an area of
historical study considered by some to be a
social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. In this view, it may include areas of
economic history,
legal history and the analysis of other aspects of
civil society that show the evolution of social norms, behaviors and mores. It is distinguished from
political history,
military history and the so-called history of great white men. While proponents of
history from below and the French
annales school of historians have considered themselves part of social history, it is seen as a much broader movement among historians in the development of
historiography. Unlike other approaches, it tries to see itself as a synthetic form of history not limited to the statement of so-called historical fact but willing to analyse historical data in a more systematic manner.
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