Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Neda Honarmandi ¹
• Mohammadali Ranjbar ²

¹ Phd student of history, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

² Associated professore of history, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

The problem of categorization in the study of the social history of daily life
Traditional historiography studies on great men's lives and the relations between power and politics, categorization has not been directly approached methodologically with social- demographic criteria. However, the emergence of contemporary social-history and especially the prevalence of daily-life studies in this area, has shed new lights on Categorization. The mentioned subject gained a high level of importance in both demographic issues and the relation between demography and social-history subjects.
The aim of this study, is to explain the methodological importance of categorization in social-history, by comparing selected categorizations in several daily-life of research
The main question is how daily-life researchers have selected and organized the categories of their work, according to or under the influence of what factors; Also, is it possible to provide a single categorization method for all historical periods with different geographical and cultural coordinates?
historians, relying on hermeneutic methods and also taking into account the political, social, cultural and historical conditions of each period and the variables under study, have made a proportional categorization.
In this study, by comparing selected categorizations in some researches on daily life's history in the West and Iran, we have documented the method of categorization while finding out the logic and criterion behind them to make sense of these categorizations.
What we have found in this study, is that the author’s research status, intention, requirements, and priorities of a category in each historical determine their approach to categorization.

Keywords

• daily life
• categorization
• social category
• dailygraphy