History: Study and Documentation of the Human Past

History is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

The period of events before the invention of writing systems.

Historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers.

<p>History is supported by verifiable evidence, while myth is not.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>History uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social science is a branch of science devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social science encompasses a wide array of academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science, and political science.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Positivist social scientists use methods resembling those used in the natural sciences as tools for understanding societies, and so define science in its stricter modern sense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interpretivist social scientists may use social critique or symbolic interpretation rather than constructing empirically falsifiable theories, and thus treat science in its broader sense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The history of the social sciences began in the Age of Enlightenment after 1650.</p> Signup and view all the answers