Historical method and social investigation

Abstract

History is a contingent and open process, the result of human praxis and although history has regularities studied by different schools, especially for the materialist conception of history it does not have a closed end, nor a unique direction determined in advance. Its past its present and its future depends on the result of the class struggle, on the objectivity of its confrontation, which is the essential to explain the existence of these social classes and we could say, today, that we can go to another system or we can continue in barbarism; but that one must try at least, to analyze the past history from “below”, not from the eyes of the dominators and supposed winners, but from the rebellion of the subject peoples and the exploited classes. The story arose in order to know the events that human beings had gone through. Therefore, having as an object of study an aspect of human reality, it cannot be missed, nor that it has a procedure to investigate it, that is, a method, nor that it is dissimilar from that used by disciplines whose object is to investigate another aspect, different from that same human reality. History is a scientifically elaborated study whose purpose is to get to know man and his multiple activities carried out in other times, activities and material and immaterial creations with which he has covered time and space on earth. Over the years, many historians, scientists, philosophers, and even statesmen, have tried to express their ideas against the work of historical research, from positivist points of view, of the so-called historical materialism, of quality and quantity and even of types of human, social and economic phenomena of developing man. Thus they have generated with them, some types of methods in which the Historical Method itself is exposed, which had a strong influence on the development of historical knowledge from the nineteenth century.