{"id":6048,"date":"2023-10-25T04:10:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/changestartsnow.ca\/?post_type=documents&#038;p=6048"},"modified":"2023-10-25T04:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T04:10:31","slug":"the-importance-of-social-history","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/changestartsnow.ca\/fr\/documents\/the-importance-of-social-history\/","title":{"rendered":"THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All history is important. Political history provides the climate people lived in, economic<br>history provides background on the way people made a living. A good social historian must<br>know the theories and ideas surrounding all aspects of her or his area of research.<br>To illustrate by example:<br>A bad social historian will look at the fact that grain exports increased in a certain decade<br>and will conclude that peasants were living better because they were selling more grain,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and therefore, had more ready cash. The peasant was spending more money, ate meat<br>every day, built a better house, provided schooling for their children, became literate, ran<br>for office, and eventually rose to the level of a prosperous, middle class farmer who has a<br>perpetually pregnant wife who produced more boys than girls.<br>A good social historian, on the other hand, will not only look at increased grain exports, but<br>also at seed yields, and the political climate of the time. The good historian (GH) will find<br>that a law was passed which allowed landlords to arbitrarily raise the rent, and that these<br>landlords could forcefully requisition grain as payment to increased rent. The GH will also<br>discover that there was a law which fixed the domestic price of grain at an abnormally low<br>price. The GH will also discover that seed yields have remained the same during this time<br>period. The GH will conclude that the peasant was living worse because all the grain he was<br>growing was being given to the landlord to pay for rent, and since the price of grain was so<br>low the peasant did not, in fact, have enough grain left over to feed the family, the<br>livestock, and to use as seed the next year. This peasant family was starving.<br>Definitions<br>Primary Sources: diaries, memoirs, journals, oral accounts, manuscripts, etc.<br>Secondary Sources: opinions based on primary sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first social history tended to focus on men and the nobility. There was still the idea that<br>history had to be about movers and shakers. In the mid 1970s, a group of historians (mostly<br>women) started to look at women&rsquo;s history. They discovered that women&rsquo;s lives did not<br>involve only childbearing and child rearing. Women&rsquo;s historians disabused the belief that<br>women did not have a history.<br>Another offshoot of social history came from labour history. Labour history asked questions<br>about the formation of unions and other worker&rsquo;s movements. The new worker&rsquo;s history<br>asked questions about how the worker&rsquo;s lived, what the worker ate, who was involved in<br>the unions and why. These same questions were asked of rural dwellers, creating the world<br>of peasant history. There is, unfortunately, gaps in the history of merchants and the middle<br>class.<br>Two new and exciting components of social history is gay\/lesbian history and gender<br>history. The former asks questions about what it was like to be gay in the past. Many<br>people were under the assumption that homosexuality is a late twentieth century<br>phenomenon. Gay\/lesbian history proves that this is definitely not the case. Gender history<br>examines how being male or female caused you to have different experiences while<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>involved in the same event. Gender historians ask questions like: what were the<br>experiences of men at university, what were the experiences of women at university during<br>the same time period and at the same university.<br>The concept of gender history came from the idea that masculine and feminine is a social<br>construction. Historians have found this idea interesting and helpful to understand the<br>changes society has made to the definitions of masculine and feminine and how these<br>changes affected peoples&rsquo; reactions in certain situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1318\" src=\"https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25040954\/image-138.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25040954\/image-138.png 978w, https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25040954\/image-138-371x500.png 371w, https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25040954\/image-138-768x1035.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"968\" height=\"1290\" src=\"https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25041028\/image-139.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25041028\/image-139.png 968w, https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25041028\/image-139-375x500.png 375w, https:\/\/change_starts_now.storage.googleapis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/25041028\/image-139-768x1023.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All history is important. 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