Open Access«Everyday practices» in the «history of everyday life»: how the method works
Author(s) -
З. М. Кобозева,
З. М. Кобозева
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik samarskogo universiteta. istoriâ, pedagogika, filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-8946
pISSN - 2542-0445
DOI - 10.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-1-32-38
Subject(s) - everyday life , historiography , epistemology , sociology , bourgeoisie , historical method , aesthetics , field (mathematics) , comparative historical research , social science , politics , history , law , philosophy , political science , mathematics , archaeology , pure mathematics
The article analyzes the modern methodological paradigm within the boundaries of the theory of the history of everyday life and its methods associated with the concept of everyday practices (tactics, strategies) on the example of studying the everyday history of the bourgeois class. Despite the seeming peacefulness of the history of everyday life approach, in its epistemological field, academic relations associated with the struggle of traditionalists and postmodernists, supporters of descriptive history of everyday life and followers of discourse analysis, as well as researchers working with material within the boundaries of developments of linguistically oriented historiography. Research reflection in modern conditions is also associated with the historian's moral choice: to continue to study great dates, events, names, or to shift research optics towards a little-known, unremarkable person, torn from the jaws of time by just an accidental written document that caught a moment of his life. Ethical research reflection, asserting that the little man is the same equal creator of history, like his great contemporary, is associated with methodological ethics, which does not allow formalizing the methodological approach, formulating in the introductory part of the work those principles that are not implemented in practice in research. This article does not so much polemize with respect to the methodological approaches of modern Russian historiography, as it suggests not to follow the fashion, but, taking into account the specifics of the source base, to apply those methods that work, that is, they help to compose a kind of explanatory model of history, those related to the scientific interests of a particular researcher. In this regard, the German school of the history of everyday life A. Ludtke represents that analytical explanatory model of the past, which allows the little man to be made not only the creator of history, but also responsible for all its events.