本世纪七十年代初,霍布斯鲍姆(Eric Hobsbawm)在他的著作中曾经谈到他在社会史领域从事研究工作的激动心情。尽管到了七十年代后期,历史学在美国文化中的地位越来越不稳定,但是社会史学家的人数却与日俱增,他们的活动范围也在逐步扩大。社会史课题的大量增加近几年来,美国的社会史学家比以前任何时候更广泛地研究社会集团和社会活动,从更广的角度观察社会的发展过程。以前除了一些马克思主义者、布劳德学派的成员(Braudelians)以 In the early 1970s, Eric Hobsbawm talked about his excitement about his research work in the field of social history in his book. Although by the late 1970s historians became increasingly unstable in American culture, the number of social historians was increasing and their scope of activities expanded gradually. Massive Increase in Issues of Social History In recent years, American social historians have studied social groups and social activities more extensively than ever before, and have seen the process of social development from a broader perspective. Except for some Marxists and members of the Braudelians (Braudelians)