Күнделікті өмір тарихын зерттеудің батысеуропалық және қазақстандық дәстүрі: салыстырмалы талдау

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of Western European and Kazakhstani traditions of studying the history of everyday life in the context of contemporary historical scholarship. The history of everyday life is considered an important field of historical knowledge focused on the study of human everyday experience, regularly repeated social practices, and forms of social interaction. For a long time, these aspects remained on the periphery of historical research. The article examines the specific features of the formation of Western European and Kazakhstani research traditions within the intellectual, socio-political, and historiographical contexts of their development. It is shown that the Western European tradition of studying everyday life emerged in the second half of the twentieth century within the framework of social and anthropological history and is characterized by a high level of theoretical reflection, an interdisciplinary approach, and methodological pluralism. In Western European studies, mentalities, symbolic structures, and stable everyday practices are analyzed in the context of long-term historical processes. The Kazakhstani tradition of researching everyday life has been developing mainly in the post-Soviet period and is currently at a formative stage. Its development has been largely shaped by the legacy of Soviet historiography, as well as by the process of adopting theoretical and methodological models developed in Western European historical science. The article notes that Kazakhstani studies are primarily oriented toward empirical material, pay significant attention to social transformations, and focus on the study of crisis and transitional periods in history. The comparative analysis allows the authors to identify not only methodological differences between the Western European and Kazakhstani traditions of studying everyday life, but also common trends in their development under conditions of the internationalization of historical knowledge.