What is a historical example in which knowledge brings about sorrow? Explain.?
The Last Supper.
Can you always trust primary sources in history?
Hi i am doing an assignment for elective history.. I was asked if primary sources (original sources) were always reliable from my teacher. In history, from a primary source, can you always trust personal experiences from survivors? Will they always tell the truth? Are there any other circumstances that might affetct how a person feels?
Help me with these sociology questions please?
1.a 2.a 3.d 4.a 5.c 6.b 7.b 8.a 9.b 10.d 11.a
Can someone explain the Intersection of Biography and History AND the Sociological Imagination?
A. C W. Mills sets it out clearly in his first chapter of 'the Sociogical Imagination' (ref below) In summary he says sociologists should: 1.link the personal stresses that are common amongst individuals to the broader social structures andsets of cultural values of their society 2.trace the historical development of these wider factors 3. how they are changing today 4. what are the contradictions in these wider factors 5. how these broader contractions create those personal stresses B. In his own words then what sociologists do is to ask: "three sorts of questions: (1) What is the structure of this particular society as a whole? What are its essential components, and how are they related to one another? How does it differ from other varieties of social order? Within it, what is the meaning of any particular feature for its continuance and for its change? (2) Where does this society stand in human history? What are the mechanics by which it is changing? What is its place within and its meaning for the development of humanity as a whole? How does any particular feature we are examining affect, and how is it affected by, the historical period in which it moves? And this period - what are its essential features? How does it differ from other periods? What are its characteristic ways of history-making? (3) What varieties of men and women now prevail in this society and in this period? And what varieties are coming to prevail? In what ways are they selected and formed, liberated and repressed, made sensitive and blunted? What kinds of `human nature' are revealed in the conduct and character we observe in this society in this period? And what is the meaning for 'human nature' of each and every feature of the society we are examining? " He then shows how, for example, personal issues of poverty are underpinned by these broader sociological factors
What is the significance of studying history?
When I was in 8th grade, I asked a history teacher this same question, much to his annoyance. Six years later I was studying history full time, so I must have learned something important from him!Much of what we read in FB, etc. involves people who deal with current events based on emotions, not reason. History allows one to step back and get perspective. For example, when Pres. Trump was elected, I wondered how someone with his character could lead the nation. Then I remembered that the president we have on our $20 bill killed at least three men in duels, and the guy on the $10 bill was killed by our vice president in a duel! Trump can’t trump that!History helps us to realize that we have dealt with the same issues before, and the answers might be in the history books. For example, FDR gives us a good idea of how to deal with immigration through the Bracero Program.Thirdly, if we use reason rather than emotion, we can see that “both sides of the aisle” are very fallible. Conservatives and liberals can both realize that they don’t have a corner on the market for truth if they are willing to look to history and learn about the successes and failures of their policies in the past.
Empathy and personality disorders?
Some personality disorders (histrionic or borderline) have too much empathy, other personality disorders don't have empathy at all (narcissistic, psychopth or antisocial). What gives?