Language:
French
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Vichy, les Français et la Shoah; un état de la connaissance scientifique
Angaben zur Quelle:
212 (2020) 255-274
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
World War, 1939-1945 Deportations from France
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Prosopography
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Vaucluse (France : Department)
Abstract:
Prosopography—in Lawrence Stone’s influential definition, “the investigation of the common background characteristics of a group of actors in history by means of a collective study of their lives”—has, in recent years, continued to gain in popularity and is being applied by historians of all periods to answer an ever-increasing number of questions on a wide range of topics. Historians of the Holocaust have not been absent from adopting this approach. Christopher Browning’s classic Ordinary Men can be seen as a qualitative collective biography of one group of German perpetrators. More recently, Nicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc have mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches in their study of 991 Jewish victims from Lens.Some authors believe that it is a mistake to try to define prosopography as either a quantitative or a qualitative approach since, in their view, it is both. They would, therefore, almost certainly object to the use of the adjective “quantitative” to describe the particular form of prosopography used here. In many ways, their objection would be warranted because prosopography is, in fact, a hybrid of sorts: a qualitative approach is used to extract the information contained in the sources, while a quantitative one is at the heart of the statistical analyses performed on the collected data. In this case, however, the qualifier is appropriate because of the preponderant role played by quantification in the study.By collecting and analyzing vast quantities of data on the individuals belonging to the group being investigated, the particular traits and characteristics of that population as a whole become visible…
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