RPH Reviewer Prelims
RPH Reviewer Prelims
NATURE OF HISTORY
- Multi-sided, relevant and comprehensive. It is not only narration, it is also an analysis.
- Provides an objective record of happenings.
- A dialogue between the events of the past and progressively emerging future ends.
- Continuity and coherence are the necessary requisites of history.
HISTORICAL SOURCES
● Primary Source
- direct/ firsthand, original evidence about an event
- original materials on which other research / work is based
- produced at the same time as the event or period being studied
- characterized not by their format but rather by the information they convey
- Often located in the special collections
- examples:
Autobiographies and memos
Diaries, personal letters, and correspondence
Interviews, surveys, and fieldwork
Photographs, drawings, and posters
Speeches and oral histories
Books, magazine and newspaper articles and ads published at the time
● Secondary Source
- works made by individuals who are not directly involved in the event
- produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the material; it is
dependent to primary sources
- examples:
Bibliographies
Biographical works
Reference Books (dictionaries and atlases)
Works of criticism and interpretation
Commentaries and treatises
Indexes and abstracts
Being able to identify primary from secondary sources is the first step of the historical
method.
Content Analysis
- Used to identify patterns in recorded communication
- Aims to identify the author’s main argument, compare points of view, identify
bias, and evaluate the author’s claims based on the evidence presented or other
available evidence
- Systematically collect data from a set of texts, which can be written, oral or visual
- Can be both quantitative and qualitative
- QUESTIONS TO BE ADDRESSED IN EVERY CONTENT ANALYSIS
(According to Krippendorff):
1. Which data are analyzed?
2. How are they defined?
3. What is the population from which they are drawn?
4. What is the context relative to which the data are analyzed?
5. What are the boundaries of the analysis?
6. What is the target of the inferences?
- STEPS:
1. Identify data sources
2. Develop categories
3. Code data
4. Assess reliability
5. Analyze results
Contextual Analysis
- Assess text within the context of its historical and cultural setting, and its textuality
- Combines features of formal analysis with of “cultural archaeology”
- Considers the:
- historical context of the source (time, place, and situation at the time it was written);
- author’s background, intent, and authority on the subject;
- source’s relevance and meaning today.
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