Historical Social Research

Historical Social Research / Historical Social Research (HSR ) is an international refereed ( peer-reviewed) scientific journal for Historical Social Research.

Structure and characteristics

The magazine has existed since 1976, first under the title QUANTUM information as a newsletter of the Association QUANTUM and since 1979 under the present title. The contributions are written mainly in English and partly in German. There appear four HSR expenditures plus a supplement issue of the year. The HSR published so that up to 100 scholarly articles by international authors per year. As the official journal of the Association is QUANTUM Historical Social Research of the CSA, edited Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences in Cologne. Among the subscribers to the HSR today include over 150 libraries worldwide.

The HSR is represented in the Social Science Citation Index and is among other things developed in JSTOR and SocINDEX with FULL TEXT ( Ebsco ).

In recognition of her lasting quality, the European Science Foundation has taken the HSR 2011 in the category of "international top -journal (INT1 Sub - Category) ":

"(...) With high visibility and influence among Researchers in the various research domains in different countries, Regularly cited all over the world. "

The HSR is headed by a Managing Editor (since 1986 Wilhelm Heinz Schröder ) and supervised by an international composite editorship. It is published in cooperation with the existing user and " run-up " organizations of Historical Social Research and the related professional online networks / online portals / online journal.

Overview of Topics

Current Issue

  • HSR volume 39.1 (2014). Cultural Life Scripts

Born in 2013

  • HSR volume 38.4 ( 2013). Industry in East Germany 1950-2000
  • HSR volume 38.3 ( 2013). Space / Time Practices
  • HSR volume 38.2 ( 2013). Cultural Analysis & In-Depth Hermeneutics
  • HSR - 25 Supplement ( 2013). Jürgen W. Falter: To sociography of National Socialism
  • HSR volume 38.1 ( 2013). Special Issue: Security and Conspiracy in History

Volume 2012

  • HSR volume 37.4 (2012 ). Focus I: The Économie of Conventions / Focus II: Towards Web History
  • HSR volume 37.2 (2012 ). Special Issue: Political and Functional Elites in Post- Socialist Transformation
  • HSR volume 37.1 (2012 ). Special Issue: Elite Foundations of Social Theory and Politics
  • HSR - 24 Supplement ( 2011). Jarausch: Contemporary History

Year 2011

  • HSR volume 36.4 ( 2011). Special Issue: Conventions and Institutions from a Historical Perspective
  • HSR volume 36.3 ( 2011). Special Issue: Change of Markets and Market Societies: Concepts and Case Studies
  • HSR volume 36.2 ( 2011). Special Issue: Fertility in the History of the 20th Century
  • HSR volume 36.1 ( 2011). Special Issue: Methods for Qualitative Management Research in the Context of Social Systems Thinking
  • HSR - 23 Supplement ( 2011). Heinz Wilhelm Schröder: collective biography as an interdisciplinary method in Historical Social Research: A Personal Retrospective ..

Vintage 2010

  • HSR volume 35.4 (2010). Special Issue: The Production of Human Security
  • HSR volume 35.3 (2010). Special Issue: Integration or Exclusion: Former National Socialists in the GDR
  • HSR volume 35.2 (2010). Special Issue: Transitions / Transformations: Trajectories of Social, Economic and Political Change after Communism
  • HSR volume 35.1 (2010). Special Issue: Global Communication: Telecommunication and Global Flows of Information in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
  • HSR - 21 Supplement (2010). Philip Jost Janssen: youth research in the early Federal Republic. Discourses and surveys

Vintage 2009 All contributions from the outputs of the 2009 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 34.4 ( 2009). Special Issue: Premature Death. Patterns of Identity and Meaning From a Historical Perspective
  • HSR volume 34.3 ( 2009). Special Issue: Social Bookkeeping Data. Data Quality and Data Management
  • HSR volume 34.2 ( 2009). Special Issue: Counterfactual Thinking as a Scientific Method
  • HSR volume 34.1 ( 2009). Special Issue: Linking Theory and Data. Process -Generated and Longitudinal Data for Analyzing Long-Term Social Processing
  • HSR - 21 Supplement ( 2009). Gerhard Heske: National Accounts GDR 1950-1989. Data, methods, comparisons

Class of 2008 All contributions from the outputs of the 2008 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 33.4 (2008). Focus: Stochastic Demographic Dynamics and Economic Growth
  • HSR volume 33.3 (2008). Focus: Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data
  • HSR volume 33.2 (2008). Special Issue: Elite Formation in the Other Europe (19th - 20th Century )
  • HSR volume 33.1 (2008). Special Issue: Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences
  • HSR - 20 Supplement (2008). Heinrich Best: leadership groups and mass movements in historical terms. The contribution of historical social research to a diachronic social science

Class of 2007 All contributions from the outputs of the 2007 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 32.4 (2007). Special Issue: New Political Economy in History
  • HSR volume 32.3 (2007). Special Issue: Historical Disaster Research. Concepts, Methods and Case Studies
  • HSR volume 32.2 ( 2007). Special Issue: Family Limitation in Historical Perspective
  • HSR volume 32.1 (2007). Special Issue: Sports and Dictatorship: On the Political and Social Role of Sports in the German Dictatorships of the 20th Century
  • HSR - 19 Supplement (2007). Günter Mey, Katja Mruck (eds. ): Grounded Theory Reader

Class of 2006 All contributions from the outputs of the 2006 are freely available:

  • HSR volume 31.4 (2006). Special Issue: Constructing population in 20th Century Historiography, Social Sciences, and Politics. Transdisciplinary and International Perspectives
  • HSR volume 31.3 (2006). Focus: Doing Biographical Research - A Joint Project Against the Backdrop of a Research Tradition
  • HSR volume 31.2 (2006). Focus: World and Global History in Europe
  • HSR volume 31.1 (2006). Special Issue: Football History: International Perspectives
  • HSR - 18 Supplement (2006). William H. Schröder: Historical and Social Scientific Research: Quantitative social scientific analyzes of historical and process- produced data

Class of 2005 All contributions from the outputs of the 2005 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 30.4 ( 2005). Focus: The American TV series " Holocaust" - flashbacks to an " affected nation ." Contributions and materials
  • HSR volume 30.3 ( 2005). Special Issue: Siblings - Parents - Grandparents: Contributions of Historical, Anthropological, and demographical Research
  • HSR volume 30.2 ( 2005). Special Issue: Entrepreneurs and Managers in Socialism
  • HSR volume 30.1 ( 2005). Special Issue: Qualitative Social Research - Methodological Reflections and Disciplinary Applications: Selected Contributions from the Qualitative Social Research / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
  • HSR - 17 Supplement ( 2005). Gerhard Heske: Gross domestic product, consumption and employment in East Germany 1970-2000

Class of 2004 All contributions from the outputs of the class of 2004 are freely available:

  • HSR volume 29.4 ( 2004). Mixed Issue
  • HSR volume 29.3 ( 2004). Special Issue: The Frontiers of Environmental History
  • HSR volume 29.2 ( 2004). Focus: Historical Information Science
  • HSR volume 29.1 ( 2004). Special Issue: New Media in the Humanities. Electronic Publishing and Open Access: Current State and Future Perspectives
  • HSR - 16 Supplement ( 2004). Thomas Rahlf, Cornelia Baddack, Karl Pierau (Ed. ): Historical Social Research: Selected Bibliography 1975-2000

Class of 2003 All contributions from the outputs from the 2003 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 28.4 ( 2003). Focus
  • HSR volume 28.3 ( 2003). Special Issue: Determinants and Patterns of Marriage Behaviour in Europe in Modern Times: Selected Case Studies
  • HSR volume 28.1 / 2 ( 2003). Special Issue: The GDR 's Functional Elites: Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Results
  • HSR - 15 Supplement ( 2003). Cornelia Baddack (Ed. ): Historical Social Research from 1978 to 2003. Bibliography, abstracts, register

Class of 2002 All contributions from the outputs of the 2002 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 27.4 ( 2002). Special Issue: Human and Social Capital in Economic History
  • HSR volume 27.2 / 3 ( 2002). Mixed Issue
  • HSR volume 27.1 ( 2002). Focus: Historical Innovation Research
  • HSR - 14 Supplement ( 2002). Karl Pierau: Database and information management in Historical Social Research

Class of 2001 All contributions from the outputs of the 2001 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 26.4 ( 2001). Mixed Issue
  • HSR volume 26.2 / 3 ( 2001). Special Issue: Denunciation in the 20th Century: Between Comparistic and Interdisciplinarity
  • HSR volume 26.1 ( 2001). Focus: Internet -Based Virtual Learning
  • HSR - 13 Supplement ( 2001). Wolfgang Fritz: history of official statistics of employment in Germany

Class of 2000 All contributions from the outputs of the 2000 vintage are freely available:

  • HSR volume 25.3 / 4 ( 2000). Focus: Time Series Analysis
  • HSR volume 25.2 ( 2000). Mixed Issue: The new growth theories; Sex standardization of study subjects / Focus: Anthropology
  • HSR volume 25.1 ( 2000). Mixed Issue
  • HSR - 12 Supplement ( 2000). Bärbel Biste Hohls Rüdiger (ed. ): Subject and computer techniques for historians
  • HSR - 11 Supplement ( 2000). William H. Schröder, Wilhelm Weege, Martina Zech: Historic parliamentary system, elites and biographical research

Other vintages

All articles from the years 1978-1999 are freely available in the online archive of the HSR.

HSR partners

1 Since 1976, with the Association of QUANTUM ( " Working Group for quantification and methods in historical social science research").

2 Since 1982 with INTER QUANT ( " International Commission for the Application of Quantitative Methods in History" under the International Association of Historians ).

3 Since 1988, with the associations AHC ( the "International Association for History and Computing " ) and AGE ( "Arbeitsgemeinschaft History and Computing ").

4 Since 1998, with the information and communication networks, H -Soz -u-Kult ( " Net Humanities - Social and Cultural History " ) and H - AHC ( " Net Humanities - History Association / Computing" ).

5 Since 2001, the AFC Association ( " Association Française de Cliométrie ").

6 Since 2002, the online journal FQS ( " Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Social Research ").

7 Since 2005, the online portal Historicum -NET, including the online review journal SEE POINTS and the online journal TIME LOOKS.

8 Since 2006, the online portal TIME HISTORY ONLINE ( ​​ZOL ).

9 Since 2008 perspectivia.net with the online publication platform for the Humanities.

As the official journal of the Association QUANTUM and the International Commission INTER QUANT HSR acted initially as an international guide member of the scientific application of computer-based statistical methods (" statistics ") for analysis of historical data.

HSR is understood now in expansion as an international journal for the application of formal methods for the description and analysis of historical events, structures and processes. As a " Formal methods " can be simplified to understand all the methods that are sufficiently intersubjectively created to function as an information science algorithm. Formal methods however use - for example, in the analysis of linguistic, spatial or temporal structure - not necessarily quantitation or use of the computer in advance.

The application of formal methods to the history extends from historical and social scientific historical research on empirical quantitative and qualitative social research to Kliometrie and the Historical Information Science. Historical Social Research can also be understood as an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary paradigm; so tried the Historical Social Research to make a methodological contribution to a ( re) convergence of humanities, social sciences and life sciences.

The magazine is supplemented by three other offers:

( 1) HSR Supplement is published in print form Supplement series, which launches, Lecture Notes, Readers, data documentation, etc. contains.

( 2) HSR Transition is an open access online supplement, which launches, lecture notes, Readers, data documentation / records / databases contains.

( 3) HSR Retrospective contains abstracts database for all HSR contributions and a freely accessible online article archive for older, ie at least two years old HSR posts as pdf -files for download.

( 4) HSF book series: Historical and social scientific research was founded in 1977; to the setting of the series appeared in 1991 a total of 17 thematic volumes and 6 research documentation. The series served as a journalistic "flagship" of quantitative historical social research in the " pioneer days "; later it was replaced in this role by the journal HSR. The HSF - series can be judged in retrospect as exceptionally successful in many fundamental contributions standards were set.

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