Research benefits of oral history

Abstract

The main forms of research search of oral history are considered in the article. The systemic needs of the method of oral history in scientific research are singled out. The focus is on the views of leading Western European, American and Ukrainian researchers on a given topic. Important components of cooperation between the historian and the respondent are presented, which in our opinion can contribute to obtaining quality scientific information. Particular attention is paid to the development of flexible interviews, which can lead not only to the expected results of the survey, but also to unexpected discoveries and hypotheses. In this article an attempt is made to determine the mechanisms of constant use of the method of oral history in the scientific practice of the historian. In particular, it was established that work with a certain respondent should be repeated after certain periods of time; the second and third interviews can be even more informative for the researcher.

The article analyzes the understanding of the «окфд history», as one of the most important instruments played the role of the environment in the local context, as it was a historical process, as a factor of human will.

At the current stage of the modern science, there is a trend towards the disappearance of brownness and the recognition of the valence of the weary testimony by the wide backdrop of the past. Usnі dzherela і usnoіhistorichny method repeatedly bring its value, and in combination with other types of historical dzherel - and infinite universality. It is necessary to bring the outrageous need of a subordinate robot directly to the reinvention of a usny dzherel from an additional, illustrative, stagnant nature, which is not necessarily viscous in nature, mainly for scientific robots of all kinds of prob.