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AbstractIt has come to be common for scientists to study the history of scientific thought. But too often even today, we assume our present theories are "Truth." Scientific histories usually describe intellectual events as either having enhanced or impeded discoveries consistent with modern theory. However, by applying the same standards to Western thought that we apply to non-Western cosmologies, we find that the development of Western worldview closely reflected its own changing social structure. The idea that nature was fixed permanently by God during the creation gave way to the idea of a constantly changing, evolving world-and, at the same time, the fixed class system of European society gave way to an industrialized society characterized by class mobility. This paper will analyze British scientific theories and biohistoric models from the Reformation to Darwin's Origin of Species.

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Philippines - The Negrense: A Social History of an Elite Class. By Violeta B. Lopez-Gonzaga. Bacolod: Institute for Social Research and Development, University of St. La Salle, 1991. Pp. 134. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index.

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022463400006950 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 214-216

Author(s):

Bruce Cruikshank

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Social History ◽

Social Research ◽

History Of

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Alan F. J. Artibise, Winnipeg, A Social History of Urban Growth, 1874–1914. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1975. 382 pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. $18. £10·90.David J. Bercuson, Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labor, Industrial Relations and the General Strike. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. 227 pp. Bibliography. Paperback. $5. £3.

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926800002741 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 101-102

Author(s):

Gilbert A. Stelter

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Urban Growth ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

History Of ◽

Queen's University ◽

General Strike

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Gregory King and the Social Structure of pre-industrial England

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ◽

10.2307/3679187 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 41-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

G. S. Holmes

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Structure ◽

Social History ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The Rich ◽

Post War

Despite the rich and exciting work of recent years, the social history of England between the Restoration and the Industrial Revolution still bears something of a hangdog look, scarcely war-ranting, as yet, the cosmic conclusions and ferocious controversies to which students of early Stuart and early nineteenth-century society have grown accustomed. Yet, thanks to the work of one remarkable Englishman, who was born in 1648 and died in 1712, there is one aspect of this pre-industrial period—its social structure—on which we are all happy to pontificate. Gregory King's table of ranks and degrees, on which in the last resort so much of this confidence rests, has now acquired a unique cachet. The continual reproduction in post-war textbooks of this famous document, which we think of as King's ‘social table’ but which he described as his ‘Scheme of the Income and Expense of the Several Famillies of England’, is just the most obvious symptom of its dominant historiographical influence.

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“The Art of Good Management”

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859000007963 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 359-385

Author(s):

Richard Whipp

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social History ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Industrial Relations ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Pottery Industry ◽

Trade Unionism ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject

This paper is derived from a study of work and trade unionism in the British pottery industry in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It is an attempt to open up the history of pottery management's labour strategies for debate, given the relatively slight attention the subject has received in general or with regard to this important period. Ceramic historians, in common with labour and social history, have neglected the detailed study of management, while contemporary writers on the Potteries often lapsed into a “demonology” when dealing with pottery manufacturers. In contrast to the more famous volumes on social conditions in the Potteries by Shaw or Owen and Warburton's examination of trade unions, the early-twentieth-century pottery-owners have not been the subject of sustained analysis. Yet an orthodoxy of sorts has developed, which sees the industry's management as typically crude and unchanging in technique. Economists such as B. R. Williams or geographers like Yeaman have been unchallenged in their assertions that owners could almost dispense with labour-control strategies in the light of the workforce's passivity and the tranquility of industrial relations in the industry.

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GERAKAN SOSIAL PETANI DESA BANJARANYAR DALAM MEMPERJUANGKAN LAHAN PERTANIAN

JURNAL PENELITIAN ◽

10.28918/jupe.v12i2.655 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 295

Author(s):

Nanang Hasan Susanto

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Social Structure ◽

Social History ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Rural Society ◽

The Political ◽

History Of ◽

Observation Method ◽

Resistance Movement ◽

The Village

This study was aimed to determine the history of social movements of Banjaranyar farmers, examined political economy theories of Popkin (1979) in The Rational Peasant: The Politics Economy of Rural Society in Vietnam that the resistance movement of farmers occurred when most people feel disadvantaged, and examined the theory of Scott (1976)about the concept of leadership and social structure. Through a historical approach, with the observation method of participation (participant observation) on the field, the study concluded, that the history of the struggle of Banjaranyar Farmers had a genuine dynamic, and the political economy theory of Popkin (1979), the theory of Scot (1976) manifested in social history that took place in the village of Banjaranyar.

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Aeschylus in Sicily

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.2307/627808 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 87 ◽

pp. 74-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

C. J. Herington

Keyword(s):

Social History ◽

Fourth Century ◽

Fifth Century ◽

Social Patterns ◽

Free Inquiry ◽

Complete Work ◽

Close Observation ◽

History Of ◽

City State ◽

Better Than

Time has done almost its worst with the cultural and social history of Western Greece in the period from Hieron's succession in 478 to the death of Aeschylus in 456. It has left us no complete work by any Western Greek author; and for a chronicler of the period it has been able to do nothing better than a Diodorus Siculus. As a result, most of those details in the picture that are not missing are obscure. Close observation is fruitless, except only at one or two points where there still falls the brilliant but fugitive light of a Pindaric ode. Even so, if we step far enough back, a general composition emerges about which, I believe, there will not be much disagreement.This was a precocious culture, largely called into being by artificial means, and hence short-lived. But while it lived it anticipated in many ways the culture and the problems of Old Greece a generation and more later. Here already was at least one city-state swollen to outsize proportions, with a fluid population for which the moral and social patterns of the close-knit archaic community must inevitably have been losing their meaning. Here already was that violent confrontation of old and new, tradition and free inquiry, which is more familiar to us from the Athens of the late fifth century, from the time of Euripides, Socrates and Aristophanes. There is a religious background of essentially rather primitive mortuary beliefs—that whole region, of course, is the demesne of the Two Goddesses—though these beliefs themselves are taking on new and far from primitive shapes in the minds of the Pythagoreans and their associates. In abrupt contrast to them stand the utterly modern and sophisticated minds of the native Epicharmus and the immigrant Xenophanes; and half-way between there is a Sicilian who embodies in one man the contradictions of the epoch: Empedocles, poet and scientist, author (to the consternation of the learned in modern times) both of the Περὶ Φύσεως and of the Καθαρμοί. The same time, in Syracuse, sees the beginnings of a school of rhetoric—rhetoric, carrying in itself all those fearsome questions as to the relation between the word and the thing, between beauty and truth, which were to perplex Plato well into the fourth century.

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