TY  - JOUR
A1  - Proeve, Ralf
T1  - Social order, stability, and certainty violence and social power in early modern history
T2  - Revue de synthèse : revue semestrielle publ. avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et du Centre National du Livre
N2  - This article develops a comprehensive critique of historical research focussing on the mutual relations between social power and violence. According to the methodological initial hypothesis, due to the inadequate distinction between indigenious concept (from sources) and heuristic (from reseach) in the historical sciences, there have been very few valuable insights into these relations to date. In order to expand the research focus which is the objective of this article, the analysis draws on the two actor-centric reference systems of "certainty" and "order". The key idea behind this, operationalizing certainty/uncertainty by means of order/disorder, is a promising way of programmatically combining a vertical and horizontal network of relationships of power, violence, certainty, and order.
KW  - social domination
KW  - violence
KW  - heuristic concept
KW  - indigenous concept
KW  - order
KW  - certainty
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37312
SN  - 0035-1776
SN  - 1955-2343
VL  - 135
IS  - 4
SP  - 385
EP  - 403
PB  - Springer
CY  - Paris
ER  -