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Promises and problems of quantitative research in Central European history
Probleme und Möglichkeiten quantitativer Forschungen in der deutschen Geschichte
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Abstract "In spite of a grand tradition of statistical analysis in the last decades of the 19th century, quantitative methods spread more slowly among German historians than among their French or British colleagues who were interested in the structural approach of the Annales or in family demography. This es... view more
"In spite of a grand tradition of statistical analysis in the last decades of the 19th century, quantitative methods spread more slowly among German historians than among their French or British colleagues who were interested in the structural approach of the Annales or in family demography. This essay describes the organizational efforts of Quantum in Germany and of the quantitative methods committee of the Conference Group for German History in the United States. Moreover, it contrasts the results of a German and American survey of the use of these methods, noting considerable differences between the two contexts in subject matter and interpretation. The article aimed at convincing reluctant scholars to make use of quantification and to progress to more sophisticated statistical analyses wherever interpretative questions demand it. The piece is therefore a document of the initial enthusiasm for the potential of a new research method." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
contemporary history; science of history; transnationalization; Central Europe; historical analysis; quantitative method; Federal Republic of Germany; France; Great Britain; international cooperation; United States of America; statistical analysis; statistical method; empirical research; essay; research facility; Europe; North America
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 115-124
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2012) 24
Issue topic
Contemporary history as transatlantic project: the German problem 1960-2010
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed