Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History

by Graff, Harvey J.; Moch, Leslie Page; McMichael, Philip; Woesthoff, Julia

• ISBN13: 9780299203443
• ISBN10: 0299203441
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Asserting the need for social science historians to examine their own field, this wide-ranging volume offers an intellectual history and critical evaluation of interdisciplinary social science and social science historiography. The editors present a creative, experimental mix of topics and genres spanning a range of contemporary thought in the fieldexploring the past, present, and future of social science history. This book comes at a time when there is great academic interest in the future of the disciplines and in their place within the organization of university education. Based on the 25th anniversary conference of the Social Science History Association, 2000.

Author Biography

Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar of Literacy Studies and professor of English and history at Ohio State University. He is a past president of the Social Science History Association.  Leslie Page Moch is professor of history at Michigan State University.  Philip McMichael is professor and chair in the Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
The SSHA and social science history at 2000
Presidential address 2000 : the shock of the "'new' (histories)": social science histories and historical literacies	p. 13
Twenty-five years later : SSHA in the eyes of its founding spirits	p. 57
Looking backward and looking forward : social science history at 2000, critical perspectives	p. 69
Teaching social science history
Worlding history	p. 81
Social science history past and present
The evolution of the social science history association meetings, 1976-1999	p. 101
Historical demography and family history	p. 114
Changing conceptions of race and racial inequality	p. 130
Literacy as social science history : its past and future - a roundtable	p. 153
The future of social science history
The event of place in historical sociology	p. 179
Southern perspectives on historical social science : summaries of presentations and discussion	p. 222
New directions in historical social science : summaries of presentations and discussion	p. 225
SSHA presidential addresses, 1976-2000	p. 231
Social science history mission statements	p. 233
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