RELATIVISM SOCIO-CULTURAL ÎN FAPTUL ISTORIC
Socio-Cultural Relativism in the Historical Fact

Summary/Abstract: What is centrism and what kind of influences has the researcher’s cultural model on his/her subject of investigation, and in which ways the given historical context gains different meanings in time, are some of the key questions of this paper. Taking into account the historians’ socio-psychological biases when they do researches in the socio-humanistic realms, their (ethno)centrically embeddings, we can move away from a history of an unrepeatable contingency of events, towards a relativistic consideration of history’s objects of study. By adding on this path a genuine cultural relativism, various socio-anthropological methods and techniques, thinkers of history could overpass the social-cultural influences (upon their investigated phenomena/groups/historical periods) of their belonging social groups, and catch up properly the “original meanings”. Looking at various historical facts through the double opaque lens of sociology and history, I have emphasized the syntheticphenomenological solution/theoretical frame which could smooth the progress of (socio-historical) data examination.

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