Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)

Social Facts and History

Thoughts on Facts, Texts, and Truth

Authors
Keyuan Shi1, *
1School of History & Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
*Corresponding author. Email: keyuan1999@m.scnu.edu.cn
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Keyuan Shi
Available Online 1 February 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220131.161How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Social facts; Historical writing; Postmodernism
Abstract

This paper demonstrates how historians should understand historical texts and social facts under the trend of post-modern thinking. Combined with Durkheim’s concept of social facts, it shows that the concept of truth not only affects the rules and academic strategies of arguments in different periods but also affects the way historians process and utilize historical texts. Social fact is the symbol of social existence and Durkheim’s perspective of examining society, which helps to understand the internal development of history clearly.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
1 February 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-527-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220131.161How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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