Critical History/History as Social Product
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Critical History
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Humanity creates knowledge, but we do not do this as we please; we do not create it under self-selected circumstances, but from information which already exists, gathered and transmitted from the past.[1] * Information is gathered according to the perceived institutional needs of the organisation which gathers it. * Information is preserved according to the priorities created by successive institutions * Other data may be available and may be subsequently ordered/reordered into information * This information may be processed into knowledge in different ways * Each of these phases are social processes
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