![]() ![]() ![]() This first part serves as a framework to better understand the context in which both history and archaeology are perceived nowadays. It also deals with the way archaeologists think about the social usefulness of their discipline. The first part presents, on the one hand, how historians see themselves and how they see their object of study, when expressing their opinions in publications addressing larger audiences (journal interviews, regular columns in cultural journals and books aiming to popularize history the so-called vulgarization books). ![]() For this reason, our study is primarily focused on the idea of social perception related to history and archaeology within Romanian society, and it does not deal with what one may call the “current state” of history and archaeology as research disciplines or as professions. Basically, our aim is to get an insight of the way people perceive history and historians. Our main intention is to get a well grounded picture of the situation, by exploring sources that, at first view, seem quite heterogeneous: history-book market in Romania, history school books, history magazines and data provided by an on-line questionnaire. An exploratory investigation of this aspect is undergone in the present study. INTRODUCTION: For professionals in any field of science, and especially in social sciences, it is a useful intellectual exercise to asses, once in a while, their place within the society and to figure out how they and the knowledge they produce are perceived by larger audiences. ![]()
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