Social+History+Methods

'Social History Methods' is an obligatory course for students of 'Sociology (BA)' at CUB.

Read the official course syllabus here: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/adatlap/7gt02nbkn3b.pdf

= = = 1) Introduction =
 * technical information
 * course requirements
 * literature - books available in CUB central library and bookshop, see other libraries, e.g. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ELTE University Library, CEU
 * internet resources (JSTOR, Google Books, Gutenberg Project, etc.)
 * course contents, chronology, major topics

= 2-3) Historical Demography, Family and Household = > https://books.google.hu/books?id=m7xcCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&hl=hu&pg=PR5#v=onepage&q&f=false > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hfmymsgi4gukr_v8MSABo1K7j7fQ-CRldgjI_Bio-iQ/edit?usp=sharing
 * John Hajnal, European Marriage Patterns in Perspective, in: D.V. Glass & D.E.C. Eversley, eds., Population in History, Essays in Historical Demography, London 1965, 101-143 = []
 * Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost - Further Explored, 2000 [3d ed. 1983, 1st ed. 1965] - read Chap. 1 online:
 * The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, see webpage: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/centres/campop/hpss/
 * Local Population Studies Society: http://www.localpopulationstudies.org.uk
 * John Knodel, An Excercise on Household Composition for Use in Courses in Historical Demography, in: Local Population Studies (1979) Nr. 23, 10-23: http://www.localpopulationstudies.org.uk/PDF/LPS23/LPS23_1979_10-23.pdf
 * HOMEWORK, deadline **October 15**! Please, collect historical demographic data (e.g. population size, birth and death rates) in a worksheet and copy in the shared file:

= 4) Microhistory = > https://books.google.hu/books?id=lSgtq5rZUkEC&lpg=PP1&hl=hu&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=false > access until October 4, 2017: https://archive.org/stream/montailloupromis00lero#page/n5/mode/2up = = =5) History of Everyday Life =
 * A.E. Imhof, // Lost Worlds, How our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life is so Hard Today? // (Charlottesville 1996) transl. Thomas Robisheaux, original title: // Die verlorenen Welten, Alltagsbewältigung durch unsere Vorfahren — und weshalb wir uns heute so schwer damit tun // (München 1984), some parts online at Google Books: https://books.google.hu/books?id=fvSbMRBWfzoC&lpg=PP1&hl=hu&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Cambridge, MA 1974, some parts online at Google Books:
 * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou, The Promised Land of Error / Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324, New York 1978 [1st ed. in French 1975], online borrowing: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ladurie+Montaillou;
 * Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms, The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, Baltimore 2013 [1st ed. in Italian 1976], some parts online at Google Books: https://books.google.hu/books?id=NZzyAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=carlo%20ginzburg&hl=hu&pg=PT3#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre, Princeton 1983, some parts online at Google Books: https://books.google.hu/books?id=6a9VDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=Davis%20Martin%20Guerre&hl=hu&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, [1st ed. 1984]
 * Giovanni Levi, Inheriting Power, The Story of an Exorcist, Chicago 1988 [1st ed. in Italian 1985], online borrowing: https://archive.org/details/inheritingpowers00levi; access until October 4, 2017: https://archive.org/stream/inheritingpowers00levi#page/n5/mode/2up
 * John Ervin Little, The Other Quebec, Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-century Religion and Society, Toronto 2006, some parts online at Google Books: https://books.google.hu/books?id=dWXXjkEE9HEC&lpg=PA11&dq=Giovanni%20Levi&hl=hu&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * Microhistory Network webpage: http://www.microhistory.eu/
 * Paul Zumthor, Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland, Stanford 1994 [1st ed. in French 1959], online at Google Books: http://books.google.hu/books?id=hFIiVZB60BQC&hl=de&source=gbs_navlinks_s
 * Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I, The Structure of Everyday Life, The Limits of the Possible, Berkeley 1992 [1st ed. in French 1979], some parts online at Google Books: https://books.google.hu/books?id=rPgVp3vMOjcC&lpg=PP1&dq=Braudel%20everyday%20life&hl=hu&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
 * The Annales School, see the 'Annales' on JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/journal/annahisteconsoc or on Persée: http://www.persee.fr/collection/ahess
 * Cultural History
 * Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897)
 * Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)

= 6) History of Emotions =
 * Linda A. Pollock, The Practice of Kindness in Early Modern Elite Society, in Past and Present Nr. 211 (2011), 121-158 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Pollock2011.pdf

=7) Biography and Prosopography= > Prosopography Approaches and Applications A Handbook, edited by K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Prosopographica et Genealogica 13 (Oxford, 2007) = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Verboven2007.pdf
 * Prosopography Research, University of Oxford = http://prosopography.modhist.ox.ac.uk/
 * Koenraad Verboven & Myriam Carlier & Jan Dumolyn, A Short Manual to the Art of Prosopography, in
 * Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families = http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/index.htm
 * WikiTree Project: European Royals and Aristocrats 1500-Present = https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:European_Royals_and_Aristocrats_1500-Present

= 8) Oral History =
 * Oral History Research and Resources, University of California Santa Cruz = https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/oralhist/about-oral-history
 * Douglas Lambert & Michael Frisch, Digital Curation through Information Cartography: A Commentary on Oral History in the Digital Age from a Content Management Point of View, in: Oral History Review 40 (2013) Nr. 1, 135-153 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Lambert_Frisch2013.pdf
 * Margot Note's Oral History Kits: Documenting Your Mother's Life, May 8, 2017, = http://www.margotnote.com/blog/2017/5/8/documenting-your-mothers-life; Detailing Dad’s Life Story, June 10, 2017, = http://www.margotnote.com/blog/2017/6/10/detailing-dads-life-story
 * USC Shoah Foundation, The Institute for Visual History and Education, University of Southern California = https://sfi.usc.edu/
 * Oral History Project, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza = https://www.jfk.org/the-collections/oral-history/
 * The Oral History Review = https://academic.oup.com/ohr
 * CLASS- or HOMEWORK, deadline **November 15**! Please, write a two-page draft entitled 'My First Draft of an Oral History Interview'

= 9) Social Network Analysis= > = https://uchicago.app.box.com/s/d1r4szo6hienmmly0cros1s1hef2l35x > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Padgett_Ansell1993.pdf > = http://www.smrfoundation.org/ > = https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/nodexl-network-overview-discovery-and-exploration-in-excel > = https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Milic-Frayling_NodeXL-Social_Network_Analysis_in_Excel_RFS_71310.pdf
 * Pádraig MacCarron & Kimmo Kaski & Robin Dunbar, Calling Dunbar's Numbers, in: arXiv:1604.02400 [physics.soc-ph] 4 Aug 2016, abstract = https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02400#, full text = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/MacCarron_Kaski_Dunbar2016.pdf
 * Josue Ortega & Philipp Hergovich, The Strength of Absent Ties: Social Integration via Online Dating, in: arXiv:1709.10478 [physics.soc-ph], 29 Sep 2017, abstract = https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10478; full text = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Ortega_Hergovich2017.pdf
 * John F. Padgett & Christopher K. Ansell, Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400–1434, in: American Journal of Sociology 98 (1993), 1259–1319
 * Webpage of John F. Padgett = http://home.uchicago.edu/jpadgett/
 * Free family history and genealogy records at FamilySearch by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) = https://www.familysearch.org/
 * Network Science = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/network-science#
 * NodeXL - a network analysis tool for MS Excel

= 10) Historical Social Sciences = > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Geertz1972.pdf
 * Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Social Function of the Past: Some Questions, in: Past & Present, Nr. 55 (May, 1972), 3-17 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Hobsbawm1972.pdf
 * Immanuel Wallerstein, Anthropology, Sociology, and Other Dubious Disciplines, in: Current Anthropology, Vol. 44, Nr. 4 (August/October 2003), 453-465 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Wallerstein2003.pdf
 * Jürgen Kocka, The Middle Classes in Europe, in: Journal of Modern History, Vol. 67, Nr. 4 (Dec., 1995), 783-806 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Kocka1995.pdf
 * Jürgen Kocka, Losses, Gains and Opportunities: Social History Today, in: Journal of Social History, Vol. 37, Nr. 1, Special Issue (Autumn, 2003), 21-28 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Kocka2003.pdf
 * Clifford Geertz, Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, in: Daedalus, Vol. 101, Nr. 1, Myth, Symbol, and Culture (Winter, 1972), 1-37
 * Clifford Geertz, History and Anthropology, in: New Literary History, Vol. 21, No. 2, (Winter, 1990), 321-335 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Geertz1990.pdf

= 11) Cliometrics = > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/McCloskey1978.pdf > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Caferro2013.pdf > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Komlos1992.pdf
 * Robert William Fogel, Three Phases of Cliometric Research On Slavery and its Aftermath, in: American Economic Review, Vol. 65, No. 2, (May, 1975), 37-46 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Fogel1975.pdf
 * Donald N. McCloskey, The Achievements of the Cliometric School, in: Journal of Economic History, Vol. 38, No. 1, (Mar., 1978), 13-28
 * William Caferro, Petrarch's War: Florentine Wages and the Black Death, in: Speculum, Vol. 88, No. 1 (JANUARY 2013), 144-165
 * John Komlos, Anthropometric History: What Is It?, in: OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Spring, 1992), 3-5
 * Maddison Project = http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/home.htm
 * The Cliometric Society = http://www.cliometrics.org/index.htm
 * French Cliometric Association (AFC) = http://www.cliometrie.org/en/
 * Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History = http://www.cliometrie.org/en/cliometrica
 * CLASS- or HOMEWORK in small groups, deadline **December 15**! Please, explore the Maddison Project data and write a one-page report on your findings.

= 12) Urban History, Women's History = > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Seligman2013.pdf
 * Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, New York 1961
 * Lewis Mumford, The Neighborhood and the Neighborhood Unit, in: The Town Planning Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Jan., 1954), 256-270 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Mumford1954.pdf
 * Leonardo Benevolo, The European City, London 1993
 * Amanda I. Seligman, Urban History Encyclopedias Public, Digital, Scholarly Projects, in: The Public Historian, Vol. 35, No. 2 (May 2013), 24-35
 * Kathleen Sheldon, Markets and Gardens: Placing Women in the History of Urban Mozambique, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 37, No. 2/3 (2003), 358-395 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Sheldon2003.pdf
 * Urban History = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history

= 13) Political Languages, Text Analysis, Digital Humanities = > = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Becker2017.pdf > = https://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-grimes/naming-classifying-text-a_b_4556621.html
 * J.G.A. Pocock, The concept of a language and the //métier// //d'historien//: some considerations on practice, in: Anthony Pagden, ed., The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe, Cambridge 1987 (Pb 1990), pp. 19-38 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Pocock1987.pdf
 * Anna Becker, Gender in the History of Early Modern Political Thought, in: Historical Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Dec., 2017), 843-863
 * Hilde De Weerdt & Chu Ming-Kin & Ho Hou-Ieong, Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective: A Digital Approach, in: Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Vol. 2, No. 2, (Fall 2016), 58-69 = http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/DeWeerdt_etal2016.pdf
 * Lincoln Mullen, 'Text Analysis for Historians' course at George Mason University = http://lincolnmullen.com/courses/text-analysis.2016/
 * Seth Grimes, Naming & Classifying: Text Analysis Vs. Text Analytics, in: The Huffington Post, The Blog, March 9, 2014