DISCIPLINES WITHIN THE SOCIAL SCIENCE

HISTORY

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 LEARNING
A Interpret history
OBJECTIVES

Identify the fields, areas

B of inquiry and methods
of history
 REVIEW

What is GEOGRAPHY?

What are the fields of

geography?
 PROCESSING QUESTIONS

• What happened on your birthday? or

what was happening on the day you were
born?

• Which branch of social science does

our activity represent?
 HISTORY
History is the past as it is des
cribed in written documents,
and the study thereof. Events
occurring before written records
are considered prehistory.
 History, the discipline that studies the
chronological record of events (as
affecting a nation or people), based on a
critical examination of source materials
and usually presenting an explanation of
their causes.
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
MAJOR FIELDS OF HISTORY
 DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
Diplomatic history deals with the
history of international relations
between states. Diplomatic history
can concern itself with the foreign
policy of one state. It tends to be
more concerned with the history of
diplomacy.
 ECONOMIC HISTORY
is the study of economies or economic
phenomena of the past. Analysis in
economic history is undertaken using
a combination of historical methods,
statistical methods and the application
of economic theory to historical
situations and institutions.
 ASIAN HISTORY

The history of Asia can be seen as the

collective history of several distinct perip
heral coastal regions such as East Asia,
South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middl
e East linked by the interior mass of the
Eurasian steppe.
 WORLD HISTORY
World history or global history is a field of histori
cal study that emerged centuries ago. The field
became much more active in terms of university
teaching, text books, scholarly journals, and acade
mic associations in the late 20th century. It
examines history from a global perspective. It deals
with the history of multiple cultures and nations on
a global scale. World history looks for common
patterns that emerge across all cultures.1]
 EUROPEAN HISTORY

The history of Europe covers

the people inhabiting Europe
from prehistory to the present.
 ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

Environmental history is the study of

human interaction with the natural world
over time, emphasising the active role
nature plays in influencing human
affairs and vice versa.
 MILITARY HISTORY
Military history is a humanities discipline
within the scope of general historical
recording of armed conflict in the history of
humanity, and its impact on the societies,
cultures and economies thereof, as well as
the resulting changes to local and international
relationships.
 LEGAL HISTORY

Legal history or the history of law is

the study of how law has evolved and
why it changed. Legal history is
closely connected to the development
of civilizations and is set in the wider
context of social history.
 CULTURAL HISTORY
Cultural history combines the approaches of anthro
pology and history to look at popular cultural traditions
and cultural interpretations of historical experience. It
examines the records and narrative descriptions of
past matter, encompassing the continuum of events
(occurring in succession and leading from the past to
the present and even into the future) pertaining to a
culture.
 MODERN HISTORY

Modern history is the history of the world be

ginning after the Middle Ages. Generally the
term "modern history" refers to the history of
the world since the advent of the Age of
Reason and the Age of Enlightenment in the
17th and 18th centuries and the beginning of
the Industrial Revolution.
 WOMEN HISTORY
Women's history is the study of the role that women
have played in history and the methods required to
do so. It includes the study of the history of the
growth of woman’s right throughout recorded history,
personal achievement over a period of time, the
examination of individual and groups of women of
historical significance, and the effect that historical
events have had on women.
 Inherent in the study of women's history is the
belief that more traditional recordings of history
have minimized or ignored the contributions of
women to different fields and the effect that historical
events had on women as a whole; in this respect,
women's history is often a form of historical
revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the
traditional historical consensus.
TOOLS USED BY
HISTORIANS
 PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary sources include documents
or artifacts created by a witness to or
participant in an event. They can be
firsthand testimony or evidence created
during the time period that you are
studying.
 Primary sources may include diaries,
letters, interviews, oral histories,
photographs, newspaper articles, govern
ment documents, poems, novels, plays,
and music. The collection and analysis
of primary sources is central to historical
research.
 SECONDARY SOURCES
Secondary sources analyze a scholarly
question and often use primary sources as
evidence.
Secondary sources include books and
articles about a topic. They may include lists
of sources, i.e., bibliographies, that may lead
you to other primary or secondary sources.
Historiography is the study of the methods
of historians in developing history as an
academic discipline, and by extension is
any body of historical work on a particular
subject.

What is HISTORIOGRAPHY?
 GENERALIZATION
Why is a historian like a
detective?
Differentiate primary
resources from
secondary resources.
Do you find HISTORY useful to
your daily lives? Why did you
say so?

GENERALIZATION
Thank you for listening!