...science history as one of several complementary, yet often competing, approaches to the subject. 1.A. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH is problem-oriented. It...sufficiently specific content to permit analogy and prediction. 1.b. The humanist views any such extraction of human experience from its matrix of time...

...spokesmen for quantitatively oriented social history argues that "the social science approach . . . assumes that there are uniformities of human behavior...eye to discovering, verifying, or illuminating such uniformities."53 Another set holds that "from the historian's point of view, the value of technical...

...Tilly die met hun boek History as social science sterk de aandacht trokken, formuleerden het als volgt: 'The social science approach is problem-oriented....uniformities. The aim is to produce general statements of suffïciently specific content to permit analogy and prediction'.29 Woorden als 'theorie' en 'generalisatie'...

...methods. In the words of one American primer in social history, "the social science approach . . . assumes that there are uniformities of human behavior that transcend time and place . . . ; and the historian as social scientist chooses his problems with a view to discovering, verifying, or illuminating...

...stressing that the major distinctions between social scientific history, which is problem-oriented and "assumes that there are uniformities of human behavior...transcend time and place and can be studied as such," versus the humanist approach, which "views any such extraction of human experiences from its matrix...