Exam 2- chapter 12

Question 1

Particularizing

Answer 1

interested in minute details of the past

Question 2

generalizing

Answer 2

interseted in how things fit into the bigger picture

Question 3

splinting

Answer 3

chipping away at theory by examining how it holds up to data

Question 4

lumping

Answer 4

taking seemingly disparate facts and putting them together.

Question 5

research design

Answer 5

• descriptive history

- analytical history

Question 6

Descriptive history

Answer 6

primarily addresses what happened in sport

- a map of what happened

Question 7

analytical history

Answer 7

addresses the complexity of relationships and draws connections to determine how any why sports developed the way it did and the role it served

Question 8

primary sources

Answer 8

original records created at the time the historical event took place

Question 9

secondary sources

Answer 9

recorded finding based on the interpretations and analyzes of primary sources `

Question 10

External criticism

Answer 10

establishing the authenticity of the primary source

- makes the source valid

Question 11

internal criticism

Answer 11

once authenticity has been established then they look at credibility of the documents.

• looking at if someone has bias or what their interest was in doing the study
• were they leaving things out??