METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF RESEARCH CONCERNING THE ACTIVITY OF INDIVIDUALS IN HISTORY Cover Image

TEORIJSKO-METODOLOŠKI PROBLEMI ISTRAŽIVANJA DELOVANJA LIČNOSTI U ISTORIJI
METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF RESEARCH CONCERNING THE ACTIVITY OF INDIVIDUALS IN HISTORY

Author(s): Marija Obradović
Subject(s): History, Methodology and research technology, Philosophy of History
Published by: Institut za savremenu istoriju, Beograd
Keywords: history; problems of research; methodology; activity of individuals; process of social reproduction; social historical activity;

Summary/Abstract: Historical development of societies is conditioned by complex deterministic structure in which the central place occupies the system of material reproduction and the reproduction of social relationships. Therefore, the activity of an individual as a factor of history has to be observed having in mind its place in the process of social reproduction. Social historical activity of an individual has been always motivated by social economic interest, and is being realized in political sphere of society by identification with corresponding ideological system and participation in political struggle. The basic parameters for the research of activities of individual in the history are: 1) unity of complexes and antagonism of the social system; 2) economic interests of an individual; 3) ideological system; 4)political system; 5) culture system; 6) social-psychological structure of an individual and the process of socialization in which the individual is formed; 7) the place and relations of an individual toward the process of social-economic growth and development; 8) history of social structure and the structure of an individual; 9) concrete social-historic circumstances and situations in which individual is acting.

  • Issue Year: 1993
  • Issue No: 1+2
  • Page Range: 190-206
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian