History, Quantification, and the Social Sciences

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ID3758634
AuthorsJerome M Clubb (University of Michigan), Allan G Bogue (University of Wisconsin)
Year1977
Volume21
Issue2
Pages167-185
Publication date1977-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000276427702100202
OpenAlexW1991378547
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

During the past 20 or more years change and ferment has invigorated the study of the past. New approaches to historical inquiry have been advocated and pursued, historians have developed new interest in formerly neglected areas, and practitioners of other disciplines have begun to show renewed interest in using a historical dimension in their research. The contributors to this special issue reflect on these and related developments. Their reflections, however, incorporate several disci-plinary perspectives and are cast in terms of the participants ’ own research and intellectual orientations. This essay is not an introduction to this issue. Rather we have taken it as an opportunity to consider recent developments from our own perspective and to state our own views and conclusions, even though they are incomplete and, perhaps also, deviant from the views of others, including some of the contribu-tors, who have been no less involved in the agitations, explorations, and achievements of the last two decades. We are concerned here with the

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