The Social Science History Association, formed in 1976, brings together scholars from numerous disciplines interested in

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

. : Its statement of purpose is: "To bring together members of various disciplines (including economics, sociology, demography, anthropology, and history) who work with historical materials."

Social Science History ''Social Science History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal. It is the official journal of the Social Science History Association. Its articles bring an analytic, theoretical, and often quantitative approach to historical evidence. It ...

is a quarterly, peer-reviewed academic journal. It is the official journal of the Social Science History Association. Its articles bring an analytic, theoretical, and often quantitative approach to historical evidence. The journal's founders intended to "improve the quality of historical explanation" with "theories and methods from the social science disciplines" and to make generalizations across historical cases.Editors' Foreword
1976. ''Social Science History'', 1(1): i-ii The first issue came out in the fall of 1976. The journal's articles that are most-accessed and cited through

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are about

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and

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and associated narratives.

History

The "Social Science History Association" was formed in 1976 as an interdisciplinary group with a journal ''

'' and an annual convention. The goal was to incorporate in historical studies perspectives from all the social sciences, especially political science, sociology and economics. The pioneers shared a commitment to quantification. However, by the 1980s critics complained that quantification undervalued the role of contingency and warned against a naive positivism. Meanwhile, quantification became well-established inside economics in the field of cliometrics, as well as in political science. In history, quantification remained central to demographic studies, but slipped behind in political and social history.Harvey J. Graff, "The Shock of the 'New’ (Histories)': Social Science Histories and Historical Literacies," ''Social Science History'' 25.4 (2001) 483-533 in Project Muse

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History

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