جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « تاریخ شفاهی » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

Oral History is one of the most democratic qualitative research method in the humanities and social sciences in which narrators retell realities; oral history is a deep dialog between two persons in that their memories are recorded in the format of narrations. Memories and remembering of the memories (why and how) are the most important aspect of implementing of oral history. In this article, we investigate the method of oral history to demonstrate how to apply oral history in the reflection of collective trauma. Collective trauma is a collective psychological damage that makes people feel loss in the case of natural and unnatural events such as earthquake and war, which brings them painful and grieving memories that survive for many years. These people are the most important subjects of oral history. Hence, referring to the works of Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich, the winner of the Noble prize in literature in 2015, that are translated and published in Persian, we demonstrate concretely how to apply this method in the reflection of various kinds of collective trauma.

The main aim of this paper is to explain the importance of narrative texts, and oral history collections for analyzing Iran economic history. Emphasizing oral narratives on economic subjects indicates that to what extent these narratives might clarify some vague economic issues in Iranian economic history. The narratives of industrialists, traders, technocrats and entrepreneurs on economic events could shed light not only on new issues for further research but also these new narratives opened up the analysis of issues that closed their case. In addition, since description and analysis in economic history could use other disciplines such as social and political history in order to explain narratives of other collections, this, in return, might enrich the analysis of narratives. The paper is also probed to explain the characteristics and role of Iranian family capitalism using oral narratives of industrialists, traders, technocrats and entrepreneurs. Their narratives indicated that family firms have moved safely to the second generation because of keeping family ties more than finding ways to expand economic and maximizing activities and trusting family members more than non-members. Based on some oral narratives, the paper attempts to show how charitable actions and social responsibility in these family firms expanded along with their beneficial activities.