The grammar of time: a toolbox for comparative historical analysis

Kreuzer offers guidance to scholars looking to comparative historical analysis (CHA) for the tools to analyze macro-historical questions. Like history, CHA uses the past to formulate research questions, describe social transformations, and generate inductive insights. Like social science, CHA compar...

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Main Author: Kreuzer, Marcus 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:Methods for social inquiry
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Summary:Kreuzer offers guidance to scholars looking to comparative historical analysis (CHA) for the tools to analyze macro-historical questions. Like history, CHA uses the past to formulate research questions, describe social transformations, and generate inductive insights. Like social science, CHA compares those patterns to explicate generalizable and testable theories. It operates in two different worlds-one constantly changing and full of cultural particularities and another static and full of orderly uniformities. CHA draws attention to the ontological constructions of these worlds; how scholars background historical and geographic particularities to create a social reality orderly enough for theorizing, while others foreground those particularities to re-complexify it to generate new inductive insights. CHA engages in ontological triage, dialogue between exploration and confirmation, and conversation in how to translate test results into genuine answers. This book is supplemented by online materials including introductory videos, diagnostic quizzes, advanced exercises, and annotated bibliographies
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Zielgruppe: 5A, Zielgruppenalter, empfohlenes Alter
Zielgruppe: 5P, Bezug zu speziellen Gruppen und Kulturen oder sozialen und kulturellen Interessen
Interessenniveau: 4CTB, für die Bachelor-Ausbildung oder äquivalente Ausbildungsgänge
Physical Description:xii, 214 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781108483780
9781108718233

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