This study researches some of the most recent theories (elaborated by historians and social scientists) applied to the practice of historical research. The object of this research includes ideas, concepts, notions, methods of scholarly analysis of past social reality, as well as the emergence of...

The paper analyzes the objects, concepts and methods of cultural history / histoire culturelle / Kulturgeschichte / kulturnaya istoriya, a modern historical subdiscipline that exists in different national historiographical traditions. This subdiscipline’s objects of study, such as social...

The paper analyzes the contents and objectives of ‘public history’, the relationship between scholarly and popular knowledge, conventions governing the representation of the past out-side the academic context, and the transfer of scholarly knowledge from academic to media environment. The...

Analyzed is a corpus of foreign journals on social sciences and humanities where Russian researchers publish their papers, and the topics of the papers. The journals are listed in the WoS database. The authors restrict themselves to two social disciplines (economics and sociology) and two...

Teaching history in comprehensive school has a cognitive goal and important social functions. Professional historians are much more concerned about acquainting students with the fundamentals of history as research discipline-above all, with the latest ideas of its character. The author uses...

The paper analyzes the contents and objectives of ‘public history’, the relationship between scholarly and popular knowledge, conventions governing the representation of the past outside the academic context, and the transfer of scholarly knowledge from academic to media environment. The...

The paper analyzes the objects, concepts and methods of cultural history/histoire culturelle/Kulturgeschichte/kulturnaya istoriya, a modern historical subdiscipline that exists in different national historiographical traditions. This subdiscipline’s objects of study, such as social...

In the first part of the article we analysed general trends in supply of and demand for educational services. It is obvious, though, that demand for educational services differs between different population groups. In the second part of the article we will examine the three main parameters...

In modern academia, history is occasionally classified as a social science. My aim is to demonstrate why history has not become a ‘real' social science, although historians who represent the most advanced trends within the discipline aspired to this. Two-faced status of history is...

This study researches some of the most recent theories (elaborated by historians and social scientists) applied to the practice of historical research. The object of this research includes ideas, concepts, notions, methods of scholarly analysis of past social reality, as well as the emergence of...