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Historical research on cultural life scripts: an exploration of opportunities and future prospects
Die Historische Forschung von Lebensskripten: Möglichkeiten und Perspektiven
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Abstract "People live their lives guided by images and assumptions based on dominant representations of an idealized life that are shared with others in the community. They view the representation of an idealized life as a 'cultural life script'. The cultural life script provides a conceptual link between in... view more
"People live their lives guided by images and assumptions based on dominant representations of an idealized life that are shared with others in the community. They view the representation of an idealized life as a 'cultural life script'. The cultural life script provides a conceptual link between individual and society. Such cultural life scripts are not fixed but change in the face of new ideas and in response to changing social en economic structures and conditions. For that reason, scientific research based on cultural life scripts is not only a challenge for sociologists, social psychologists and anthropologists, but also for cultural historians, social historians and historical demographers. Seven contributions of the Nijmegen based research group Self, Script and Society have been selected to show the wide variety of research possibilities of cultural life scripts within the domain of historical research and to place cultural life scripts more firmly on the future agenda of historians." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
cultural history; historical social research; social history; demography; historical analysis
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Method
basic research
Free Keywords
cultural life script; historical demography
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 7-18
Journal
Historical Social Research, 39 (2014) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.39.2014.1.7-18
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed