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genealogy  

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  • Genealogy is an approach for the study of formative historical events, pioneered by Friedrich Nietzsche and developed further by Michel Foucault. There are also important links between genealogy and comparative historical sociology, visible in the works of Max Weber and some of his followers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Genealogy]

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