Methodology Of History Set 2

Q1 | History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

Q2 | History is more or less bunk.

Q3 | The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory.He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact."Who said?

Q4 | ……………emerged in response to the inability of speculativephilosophy (e.g. Classical German Idealism) to solve philosophical problems which had arisen as a result of scientific development.

Q5 | Who introduced the term "positivism"?

Q6 | Positivism was founded by ………………….

Q7 | ………………..is a mode of thinking that assigns a central and basicsignificance to a specific context, such as historical period, geographical place and local culture.

Q8 | ‘Poverty of Historicism’ was written by ………………

Q9 | Who is the author of ‘The Structure of Social Action’?

Q10 | Whowrote the book ‘A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?

Q11 | Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum ofinterrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Q12 | ‘Das Kapital’ was written by …………..

Q13 | A group of American historians who were dissatisfied with the exclusively Political, constitutional and military emphasis of 19th century historical writings, advocated the theory of ………………

Q14 | Charles A.Beard and Carl Becker, J.H.Robinson were the threeimportant spokesman of the American ………………..

Q15 | The ……………encouraged the interdisciplinary approach by which thereader of history they argued, should get the benefit of the knowledge from other disciplines also.

Q16 | The Annales School is a highly influential style of historiographydeveloped by …………..historians in the twentieth century.

Q17 | The journal "Annals of economic and social history" founded in …….

Q18 | ……………..was the co-founder of the Annales School.

Q19 | …………..rejected the Marxist idea that history should be used as a toolto foment and foster revolutions.

Q20 | Franciszek Bujak and Jan Rutkowski, the founders of modern ……………inPoland.

Q21 | …………….was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography basedlargely on the ideas of the Annales School.

Q22 | Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" startingin 1950 with……………..

Q23 | The leader of the fourth generation of the Annales School is ……………….

Q24 | …………….is an intellectual movement that developed in France in the 1950s and 1960s, in which human culture is analyzed semiotically (i.e., as a system of signs).

Q25 | Structuralism originated in the structural linguistics of ………….