Social Facts and History

Thoughts on Facts, Texts, and Truth

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220131.161How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social facts; Historical writing; Postmodernism

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how historians should understand historical texts and social facts under the trend of post-modern thinking. Combined with Durkheim’s concept of social facts, it shows that the concept of truth not only affects the rules and academic strategies of arguments in different periods but also affects the way historians process and utilize historical texts. Social fact is the symbol of social existence and Durkheim’s perspective of examining society, which helps to understand the internal development of history clearly.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Keyuan Shi
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - Social Facts and History
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 889
EP  - 893
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.161
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.161
ID  - Shi2022
ER  -