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De folklore als sociale wetenschap: een theoretisch prolegomenon

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Abstract

The outside public often considers folklore as an auxiliary science of history. The author of this paper follows in a bird’s eye view the growing of folklore since Romanticism in order to show that folklore gradually released herself from history and entered at the beginning of the XXth century new ways under the influence of psychology and sociology. More and more folklore has become the study of a community with traditional character, in other terms of the manners and customs of groups and layers (classes) within a people. One cannot deny the social character of this investigation and its claim of belonging to the area of social sciences. The folklorist doesn’t seek such as the sociologue after a system of society, but after the part which tradition excercises upon the action and interaction of communities and social groups within the limits of a people and its feeling and mental behaviour.

How to Cite:

De Keyser, P., (1956) “De folklore als sociale wetenschap: een theoretisch prolegomenon”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 1(1-2), 119–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95507