Prosopography of social and political groups historically located: method or research technique?
The prosopographical approach has been questioned in different disciplinary domains as its scientific nature. The debate prosopography is a technique, a tool for research, an auxiliary science or method transpires in scientific arguments and those who are dedicated to expl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Pelotas
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Pensamento Plural |
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| Online Access: | http://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/ojs2/index.php/pensamentoplural/article/viewFile/3798/3410 |
| Summary: | The prosopographical approach has been questioned in different disciplinary domains as its scientific nature. The debate prosopography is a technique, a tool for research, an auxiliary science or method transpires in scientific arguments and those who are dedicated to explaining the prosopographical research assumptions. In the social sciences, for example, prosopography is not seen only as an instrument of research, but as a method associated with a theoretical construct to apprehend the social world. The historians that use prosopographic analysis, in turn, oscillate about the analysis of collective biography is a method or a polling technique. Given
this setting we aimed at in this article, discuss the prosopographical approach from their different uses. The
study presents a literature review, demonstrating the technique of prosopography as historical research, and further as a method of sociological analysis, and then highlight your procedures and methodological limits. |
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| ISSN: | 1982-2707 2238-4642 |