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===Social===

===Social===

*[[Social history]] includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life, history of social organization, and history of social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change, whether from the top down or from the bottom up. It exploded on the scene in the 1960s, quickly becoming one of the dominant styles of historiography.  The French version, promulgated by the [[Annales School]] influenced much of Europe and Latin America.  It is the study of the lives of ordinary people. It was revolutionized in the 1960s by the introduction of sophisticated quantitative and demographic methods, often using individual data from the census and from local registers of births, marriages, deaths and taxes, as well as theoretical models from sociology such as social mobility.  The '''New Social History''' emerged in the 1960s to dominate professional scholarship in the U.S.<ref>See Olivier Zunz, ed. ''Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History,'' (1985) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=958580 online edition]</ref> and  and Canada.<ref>See Michael S. Cross, "Social History," [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0007523 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (2008) online]</ref> see also [[Social History, U.S.]].  There is no society for social history, but the field is covered in the ''Journal of Social History'', edited since 1967 by Peter Stearns.<ref>[http://chnm.gmu.edu/jsh/ See]</ref>  It covers such topics as gender relations; race in American history;  

*[[Social history]] includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life, history of social organization, and history of social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change, whether from the top down or from the bottom up. It exploded on the scene in the 1960s, quickly becoming one of the dominant styles of historiography.  The French version, promulgated by the [[Annales School]] influenced much of Europe and Latin America.  It is the study of the lives of ordinary people. It was revolutionized in the 1960s by the introduction of sophisticated quantitative and demographic methods, often using individual data from the census and from local registers of births, marriages, deaths and taxes, as well as theoretical models from sociology such as social mobility.  The '''New Social History''' emerged in the 1960s to dominate professional scholarship in the U.S.<ref>See Olivier Zunz, ed. ''Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History,'' (1985) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=958580 online edition]</ref> and Canada.<ref>See Michael S. Cross, "Social History," [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0007523 ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (2008) online]</ref> see also [[Social History, U.S.]].  There is no society for social history, but the field is covered in the ''Journal of Social History'', edited since 1967 by Peter Stearns.<ref>[http://chnm.gmu.edu/jsh/ See]</ref>  It covers such topics as gender relations; race in American history;  

the history of personal relationships; consumerism; sexuality; the social history of politics; crime and punishment, and history of the senses  

the history of personal relationships; consumerism; sexuality; the social history of politics; crime and punishment, and history of the senses  

**[[Demographic history]] is the study of population history and demographic processes, usually using census or similar statistical data. It became an important specialty inside social history, with strong connections with the larger field of demography. See [[Demography]], [[Life expectancy]], [[Demographic transition]], [[Fertility]], [[Mortality]]

**[[Demographic history]] is the study of population history and demographic processes, usually using census or similar statistical data. It became an important specialty inside social history, with strong connections with the larger field of demography. See [[Demography]], [[Life expectancy]], [[Demographic transition]], [[Fertility]], [[Mortality]]

The [[American Academy of Religion]] formed in 1964.

The [[American Academy of Religion]] formed in 1964.

Religious history, which had before appeared as just one feature of a wider cultural and social landscape, after 1990 became an autonomous subject with its own rules and transformations. This has brought great advances to its study: historians are less and less willing simply to convert religion into a epiphenomenon of other forces, social, political, economic, or cultural.<ref>see "Religion and the historical profession," in [http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/12/30/religion-and-the-historical-profession/ ''The Imminane Framce'' (Dec. 2009) online symposium]</ref>

Religious history, which had before appeared as just one feature of a wider cultural and social landscape, after 1990 became an autonomous subject with its own rules and transformations. This has brought great advances to its study: historians are less and less willing simply to convert religion into an epiphenomenon of other forces, social, political, economic, or cultural.<ref>see "Religion and the historical profession," in [http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2009/12/30/religion-and-the-historical-profession/ ''The Imminane Framce'' (Dec. 2009) online symposium]</ref>

===World===

===World===