Word: social
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...fact that Harvard does not teach its history concentrators social theory. The school's educational philosophy, as embodied in the Core Curriculum, is meant to teach modes of inquiry as opposed to a set body of knowledge. But in the History department, one aspect of historical inquiry--its theoretical basis--is left a mystery...
...while the Department's failure to teach social theory may simply be a result of history itself, the incorporation of such thinkers as Geertz into the History Curriculum would not be difficult. In some Sophomore tutorials Gramsci is taught as part of the unit on Historiography. That unit could easily be changed to one on how historians use social theory. Or, as a less drastic measure, a course on historiographical uses of social theory could be made a departmental elective...
...difficult for me to argue that social theory might be of use to history concentrators--not having read much of it as a history concentrator. But when one finds terms such as hegemony popping up in virtually every text on 19th century America, and citations of social theorists lurking in nearly every history book, it seems clear that historians read social theory, and therefore, that historians to be should at least be introduced...
...resources, especially by government, has far-reaching implications for the quality and character of national life. In the United States the flow of information and ideas is accorded broad protection by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which recognizes that open communication is fundamental to self-government, indispensible to social and economic progress, and essential to scientific inquiry and creative expression. In that spirit, higher education in America is built on a tradition of academic freedom that encourages unfettered inquiry and free exchange of information...
...said, the founding of the United States. But he denied that this was the crucial event I took it to be. What was crucial were the lives and experiences of the mass of the people. That was the subject of his history; it was the 'new history,' social history...