![]() To be black in Europe?whether during the sixteenth century or today?means sharing one crucial experience: being part of a small, but visible minority. While the study of race relations in the United States continues to inspire and influence European thinking, Europeans have yet to confront their own history. Seven contributions of the Nijmegen based research group Self, Script and Society have been selected to show the wide variety of research possibilities of cultural life scripts within the domain of historical research and to place cultural life scripts more firmly on the future agenda of historians. For that reason, scientific research based on cultural life scripts is not only a challenge for sociologists, social psychologists and anthropologists, but also for cultural historians, social historians and historical demographers. ![]() Such cultural life scripts are not fixed but change in the face of new ideas and in response to changing social en economic structures and conditions. ![]() They view the representation of an idealized life as a "cultural life script." The cultural life script provides a conceptual link between individual and society. People live their lives guided by Images and assumptions based on dominant representations of an idealized life that are shared with others in the community.
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