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Kar

Társadalomtudományi Kar

Szervezet

TÁTK Összehasonlító Történeti Szociológia Tanszék

Kód

ESZOCBA05

Cím

Social History 1.

Tervezett félév

Őszi

Meghirdetve

2024/25/1

ECTS

4

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

Purpose of the course The aim of the course is to provide general introduction into the main areas and issues of social history. It addresses theoretical approaches and investigates the great transformations of the 19th-early 20th century (regarding demographic, economic, social changes) in detail. The course is designed for students with little or no background in the field of social history, the aim is to make them understand the shape of these major transformations in the late-19th century, their key features, their contexts, and their continuing relevance to contemporary culture, social life, and government.

Tantárgy tartalma

Conduct of the course This course is based on the weekly lectures and on the literature listed in the Syllabus.

Számonkérés és értékelés

Assessment During the semester, all students must write three literature review essays based on the literature listed in the syllabus (40% of the final grade). Each essay should be 600-800 words long. One essay should encompass one topic and must include all literature (both compulsory and facultative) listed under the respective topic (including additional literature is of course possible). Preferably, the essays should be written evenly spaced over the semester, however, the deadline for submitting all three essays is: the 14th of Dec. 2024. Completion of the three essays is a prerequisite for the final exam. Final exam (60% of the final grade) in the exam period. The exam is based on the lecture material (ppt-slides which will be uploaded to Canvas) and on the reading material (which will also be uploaded to the Canvas modules). Items in the reading list marked with a star (*) are compulsory readings for the exam. Other texts listed in the syllabus are facultative readings which help to gain deeper knowledge on respective topics.

Irodalomjegyzék

Schedule & Syllabus 11th Sept      – Introduction (Requirements&Assesment) (cca 45 mins.) 18th Sept                  – What is social history? * – Burke, Peter: Overture. The New History: Its Past and its Future. in: Burke, P.: New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Polity Press, 2001. pp. 1–24. – Paul E. Johnson: “Reflections: Looking Back at Social History.” Reviews in American History, Volume 39, Number 2, June 2011, pp. 379-388. 25th Sept       – Theories of Social Change, Theories of ‘Modernity’ (Modernization Theories, Dependency Theories, World-System Theory, Multiple Modernities Theory) * - Ramachandra Byrappa et al.: Europe’s Other(ed)s: The Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900). in: The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000. pp. 109–117. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323 * – W. W. Rostow: The Stages of Economic Growth. The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1959), pp. 1-16. * – Thomas R. Shannon: World System Structure. In: An Introduction to the World-System Perspective. Westview Press, 1996. pp. 23-43. – Eisenstadt, S. N.: “Multiple Modernities.” Daedalus 129, no. 1 (2000), pp. 1–29. – C.A. Bayly: extract from the Introduction, in: The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914. Blackwell, 2004. pp. 5-12. 2nd Oct          – Demography / Demographic Changes *– Katherine A. Lynch: Demographic Transition, in: Peter N. Stearns  (ed.): Encyclopedia of Social History, Routledge, 1993. pp. 252-254. *– A.G. Kenwood – A.L. Lougheed: International migration, 1820 – 1913, in: The Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2000., Routledge, 1999. (4th ed.), pp. 45-60. – Ansley J. Coale: The Demographic Transition. The Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter 1984), pp. 531–552. – John C. Caldwell: Demographic Theory: A Long View. Population and Development Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jun., 2004), pp. 297-316 9th Oct           NO CLASS 16th Oct         – Family and Marriage in History * – Mitterauer, Michel: A ‘European Family’ in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries? in: Kaelble, Hartmut (ed.): The European Way. European Societies during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Berghahn, 2004 140–159. * – Sarah Carmichael et al.: Household and Family in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900) in: The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000. pp. 209–2017. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323 – Steven M. Beaudoin: Child Rearing, in: Peter N. Stearns (ed.): Encyclopedia of Social History, Routledge, 1993. pp. 139–143. – John Hajnal: European Marriage Patterns in Perspective, in: D. V. Glass and D. E. Eversley (eds.) Population in History: Essays in Historical Demography. Aldine Publishing Company., 1965. pp. 101–143. 23rd Oct NATIONAL HOLIDAY 30th Oct AUTUMN HOLIDAY 6th Oct  NO CLASS 13th Nov        – Indulstrialization * – Jiří Janáč, Judit Klement, and Heike Wieters: Production and Consumption in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900). in: The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000. pp. 637–645. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323 * – R. M. Hartwell: Was There an Industrial Revolution? Social Science History Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter, 1990), 567-576 . – Franklin F. Mendels: Proto-industrializaiton: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process, The Journal of Economic History, 1972 32(01), 241–261. 20th Nov        – Welfare and Social Engineering * - Claire Barillé et al: Social Engineering and Welfare in Modern History (ca. 1800 – 1900). in: The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000. pp. 473–482. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323 * - Dirk Schubert: Urban Hygiene and Slum Clearance as Catalysts… in: Guerrea, M.W. et al. (eds.): European Planning History in the 20th Century, Routledge, 2023. 27–38. 27th Nov        – Leisure and consumerism in history * – Stearns, Peter N.: Stages of Consumerism: Recent Work on the Issues of Periodization, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 69, No. 1 (Mar., 1997), pp. 102-117. – Burke, Peter: The Invention of Leisure in Early Modern Europe, Past & Present, No. 146 (Feb., 1995), pp. 136-150. 4th Dec          – Work/Home (Gender) * – Pleck, Elizabeth H.: Two Worlds in One: Work and Family, Journal of Social History, Vol. 10, No. 2, 10th Anniversary Issue: Social HistoryToday and Tomorrow? (Winter, 1976), pp. 178-195. – Gyáni, Gábor: Patterns of women‘s work in Hungary 1900-1930, European Review of History, 5 (1998), pp. 25-36. 10th Dec        – Nation/Nationalism * – Jacco Pekelder et al.: State-building and Nationalism in Modern History (ca. 1800–1900). in: The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000. pp. 275–283. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0323 * – Kamusella, Tomasz D. I.: Language as an instrument of nationalism in Central Europe, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 7, No. 2 (April 2001), 235–251. – Berend, Ivan T.: Linguistic Nationalism: Folklore and Language Reforms, in: Berend, I. T.: History Derailed, University of California Press 2003, 48–64.

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