Why and How History Matters. It Depends. Additionally, the authors review alternative approaches to political analysis, discuss the necessity of explanatory stories in political analysis, and detail the strategies used by current political science researchers to either control or correct for context. Afterword: Political Ethnography as Art and Science.
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He urges urban historians to recognize this opportunity and ask the "big" questions in their research. The article compares history to other disciplines and outlines some of the major philosophical debates surrounding historical research.
History stands out from other disciplines due to its: 1 insistence on time and place as fundamental principles of variation; 2 specialization according to time and place; 3 questions rooted in national politics; 4 interpenetration of professional and amateur efforts; 5 heavy reliance on documentary evidence; 6 emphasis on practices that involve identification of crucial actors and their motivations, the verification of this with documentary evidence, and the presentation of it in narrative form.
The major philosophical choices facing historians include 1 whether the most important phenomena to study are large social processes or individual experiences; 2 whether research should be centered on the systematic observation of human action or the interpretation of individual motives and meanings; 3 whether history and social sciences are the same or distinct fields of research; 4 whether historical writing should stress explanation or narrative.
The article argues that many of the sociological models of modernization in Europe in the 19th century are misleading due to their depiction of the past world as overly immobile, fragmented, agrarian, rural, but locally homogenous and integrated.
Tilly offers the alternative view that social changes of this era and location are best observed as the interaction between the macro-processes of the growth of nation-states and expansion of capitalism. The article expresses an argument for sociology, as a field, to return to its historical roots in which social interaction and processes are properly rooted in time and space.
This important because, as Tilly points out, social processes are inherently path-dependent whereby "every existing structure stands in the place of many theoretically possible alternative structures, and its very existance affects the probabilities that the alternatives will ever come to being.
The article describes how the field of social history is composed of three types of researchers: Linkers: those who look to compare social processes and mechanisms.
Diggers: those who view history as a base where vital information about national politics can be found. Glossers: those who use an anthropological viewpoint in which to recreate significant past actions in terms of meanings that they had for those actors. The article contends that sociological findings are oriented to a single time and place: Here and Now. To escape the tyranny of this boundary condition, sociologists focus on structures and processes that minimize constraints of time and place.
Therefore, sociologists insist on explicit conceptualization, hypothesis testing, and elaboratative formalizations in their arguments and worry more about modeling, measurement and estimation than social historians.
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