Psychohistory and the Crisis of the Social Sciences

Weinstein, Fred

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“…As noted earlier, Weinstein (1995) succinctly identifies these challenges: questions about how individuals and populations are connected; the discontinuities in people's beliefs and perceptions as they re-evaluate expectations and the objects and goals around which desires coalesce; and "the capacity of people to actively construct versions of the world . .…”

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“…3 These scholars help us offer a range of explanatory possibilities in relation to several intractable problems regarding agency in historical scholarship and social studies. Weinstein (1995) notes that these problems include the heterogeneity of populations, raising questions about how individuals and populations are connected; the discontinuities in people's beliefs and perceptions as they re-evaluate expectations and the objects and goals around which desires coalesce; and "the capacity of people to actively construct versions of the world . .…”

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Mapping the Shadow: Bringing Scholarship and Teachers Together to Explore Agency's Shape and Content in Social Change

Heyer

2012

Theory & Research in Social Education

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Mapping the Shadow: Bringing Scholarship and Teachers Together to Explore Agency's Shape and Content in Social Change

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2012

Theory & Research in Social Education

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“…Godley 1920 (slightly adapted).23 SeeGosden (2004: 39), whose theoretical approach emphasizes the importance of trying to understand the relationship between emotions and objects.24 Quotation fromStearns and Stearns (1985: 826) on what they think is to be found in historical documents 25. On this problem, seeWeinstein 1995: 302 and Tarlow 2010: 184 (on Harris and Sørensen 2010a, and their response, Harris and Sørensen 2010b.Voutsaki (2010: 75) argues that before we discuss individual agency in any particular society, we should aim to understand 'the notions of the person held in that society' and identify…”

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Envy, Poison, and Death

Eidinow

2015

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At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of the ancient sources, and their lack of agreement, the precise charges are unclear, and the reasons for taking these women to court remain mysterious.Envy, Poison, and Death takes the complexity and confusion of the evidence not as a riddle to be solved, but as revealing multiple social dynamics. It explores the changing factors-material, ideological, and psychological-that may have provoked these events. It focuses in particular on the dual role of envy (phthonos) and gossip as processes by which communities identified people and activities that were dangerous, and examines how and why those local, even individual, dynamics may have come to shape official civic decisions during a time of perceived hardship.At first sight so puzzling, these trials reveal a vivid picture of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE, including responses to changes in women's status and behaviour, and attitudes to ritual activities within the city. The volume reveals some of the characters, events, and even emotions that would help to shape an emergent concept of magic: it suggests that the boundary of acceptable behaviour was shifting, not only within the legal arena but also through the active involvement of society beyond the courts.

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Heyer

2018

The Wiley International Handbook of History Teaching and Learning

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Psychohistory and the Crisis of the Social Sciences

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Mapping the Shadow: Bringing Scholarship and Teachers Together to Explore Agency's Shape and Content in Social Change

Mapping the Shadow: Bringing Scholarship and Teachers Together to Explore Agency's Shape and Content in Social Change

Envy, Poison, and Death

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