03 HIS concepts

Cause and Effect

This concept looks at change, focusing on the action(s) or condition(s) that resultedin the event as well as the outcome(s) that result from an event. Could be Long term or Short term. Categorized as Political, Social, Cultural, Environmental, Economic influences or outcomes.

Past and Present

The difference between how something was understood then vs. how it is understood now.

Continuity and Change

What was altered and what has persisted (E.g. Continuity = Long-standing European Anti-semitism…

Change = …became radicalised to industrial mass murder during Holocaust.)

Specific and Generalized

The difference between a particular instance and a claim about a class of cases.

Perspectives

Demonstrate understanding of how a event is separated into different viewpoints/positions and reasons for differences in viewpoints.

Influence and Significance

What something affected, and how much it mattered.

Contingency

Interwined with the concept of change and change over time. Things could have turned out otherwise, and what that depended on.

Reliability and Usefulness

How far a source can be trusted on a point, and what it can be used for. These are separate: an unreliable source can be highly useful.

Bias or Propaganda

A leaning, or material produced deliberately to persuade. Both are evidence of the position they serve.

Intent and Motivation

Reasons or influences behind certain ideas or actions and the influence of said ideas or actions. (What a person set out to do, and why they wanted it.)