Social history
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Natalie Zemon Davis's Society and Culture in Early Modern France (1975), Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms (1976) Peter Burke's Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978), Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie's Carnival in Romans (1979), and Robert Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre (1984) share the same qualities of social history."--Sholem Stein |
Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States. In the two decades from 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31% to 41%, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40% to 30%.
See also
- Annales School
- Cultural Studies
- History of sociology
- Microhistory
- List of history journals
- Living history and open-air museums
- Oral History
- People's History
