History QUASSHed

Quantitative Social Scientific History in Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4973229
AutoresJ Morgan Kousser (0000-0001-5261-2859, California Institute of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano1980
Volume23
Fascículo6
Páginas885-904
Data de publicação1980-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000276428002300607
OpenAlexW2116433181
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas56

History is different from the other social sciences. Nine contrasting \nqualities have produced a striking variation between the course of \ndevelopment of quantitative methods in history and that in the rest of \nthe social scientific disciplines. First, historians have framed less compelling \nresearch agendas, and feel less constrained by the ones which \nhave been proposed, than do professionals in other fields. Historians \nborrow, rather than invent theories, prize diversity of insight more than \ncoherence; paradoxically, more are attracted by interpretations which \nclaim to overturn or replace older ones entirely, rather than those which \nstress their continuity with previous structures of understanding. If \nhistorians are often classified as belonging to one "school" or another, \nthe underlying educational philosophy is decidedly progressive, the \nassignments only roughly structured, the discipline very loose

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