Social Science History Association was formed in 1972 and brings together scholars from numerous disciplines interested in social history . The Social Science History Association's core purpose is: "To bring together members of various disciplines (including economics, sociology, demography, anthropology, and history) who work with historical materials."
6-438: The association's official journal is Social Science History , a quarterly peer-reviewed academic publication. Its essays handle historical evidence analytically, theoretically, and frequently quantitatively. 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. The first issue came out in
12-613: A professional association is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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. Its editors-in-chief are Anne McCants ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) and Kris Inwood of Guelph University . The first issue came out in
18-442: A commitment to quantification. However, by the 1980s critics complained that quantification undervalued the role of contingency and warned against 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. This article about
24-539: The fall of 1976. 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. The journal was first published by the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh then starting in the 1980s by Duke University Press . Starting in 2015
30-460: The fall of 1976. The journal's articles that are most-accessed and cited through JSTOR are about social and political movements and associated narratives. The association was formed in 1976 as an interdisciplinary group with a journal Social Science History and an annual convention. The goal was to incorporate historical studies' perspectives from all the social sciences, especially political science, sociology and economics. The pioneers shared
36-535: The publisher is Cambridge University Press . The Social Science History Association invited bids from publishers and told the Duke University Press in June 2012 of its intent to end the agreement for the press to publish Social Science History . The association planned to seek another publisher. Duke asserted it owned the title of the journal, though not the copyright for its contents. In March 2013
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