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Transcribed Image Text:1. In your own words, answer the following: what is history?
2. What role do facts play in the subject of history?
3. What role does the historian play in history?
4. Can history be completely objective?
5. Another critical aspect in the study of history is the analysis of different types of
sources. What
are the benefits of: a) primary sources b) secondary sources. How are both
sources also
problematic?
5. Historiography is the study of different interpretations of history. Read the chart
below and
identify which "“school" of history you believe to be the most plausible:
Historian/School of
Theory
History
Great Individuals Theory:
Great Individuals determine the course of history
Great Man Theory of history
Determinism:
Ideas and forces shape history (eg. American Revolution
and democracy)
• History as dialectic
For every old idea, there is a new one that conflicts with it
The Dialectic:
(thesis, antithesis)
New ideas are created out of this conflict (synthesis)
History is the product of this conflict
• History as a product of class struggle
Conflict between old ruling class and newer labour class
The Marxist Dialectic:
Radical School of History
• History written by the victors for the benefit of the
rulers/ruling class
• History as 'myth-making' or propaganda
Geographic Determinism:
History determined by geography
Critical Theory
Approaches history from the belief that all history is the
history of oppressors and the oppressed (Marxist)
Does not approach history objectively or neutrally; critiques
history to challenge existing power structures in order to
change society
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