Grundlagen der Archivrecherche in der Soziologiegeschichte

Abstract

Traditional sociological historiography relies primarily on material that is accessible in books depots and has the characteristic of being accessible in more than one copy. The results of this kind of research are themselves part of the library research. Non-printed written information, ie one-offs, are stored in other knowledge and data repositories that sociologists and sociologists of science have so far seldom used unsystematically: they seldom visit state and other archives and their holdings. What is stored there are so-called "process-produced" data (often promptly produced documents, which belong to unfinished developments), which can be of great use for the reconstruction of the past. Archives differ from each other according to who founded the archive and whose records it manages. Sociologists who want to use archival sources as data encounter historians whose specific habits they are rarely familiar with. Archivists, most of whom have been trained as historians and who understand themselves as such, exercise the gate keeper function, ie they stand between the material and the user. Non-historically socialized users of archives should pay attention to some of its peculiarities, which are described here. who were trained as historians and understand themselves as such, exercise . . .