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David Rothman (1937–2020) — Father of American social history and the role of institutions in shaping history and society. Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011) – social history of ancient India; Lloyd deMause (born 1931) – psychohistory; Gabriela Dudeková (born 1968) Ruth Goodman (born 1963) – early modern, British social history
Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosophy of history, political history and social history; Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School; Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands; Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), Soviet; Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social history
Social movements are groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on political or social issues. This list excludes the following: Artistic movements: see list of art movements. Independence movements: see lists of active separatist movements and list of historical separatist movements
Ancient historians were very different from modern historians in terms of goals, documentation, sources, and methods. [5] For instance, chronological systems were not widely used, their sources were often absorbed (traceability of such sources usually disappeared), and the goal of an ancient work was often to create political or military paradigms.
The written record agrees with the genetic evidence that such movements of people increased already before the end of Roman rule. The term "Saxon" only began to be used by Roman authors in the 4th century, initially to refer to Germanic raiders from north of the Frankish tribes who lived near the Rhine delta and on the ocean shores.
The popular view is that new social history emerged in the 1960s with the publication of Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Writing in 1966 in The Times Literary Supplement, Thompson described his approach as "history from below" and explained that it had come from earlier developments within the French Annales School.
Reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements which reject those old ideals, in that the ideas are often grounded in liberalism, although they may be rooted in socialist (specifically, social democratic) or ...
The classical approaches were not able to explain this increase in social movements. Because the core principle of these approaches was that protests were held by people who were suffering from structural weaknesses in society, it could not explain that the growth in social movement was preceded by a growth in welfare rather than a decline in ...