21/22 SSF1033 : INTRODUCTION TO
MALAYSIAN SOSIAL
HISTORY
FACULTY
SCIENCE SOCIAL
AND
HUMANITIES
FACULTY SCIENCE SOCIAL AND
HUMANITIES
Lecturer : Dr Adibah Binti Yusuf
Group Assignment: Digital Booklet
INTRODUCTION
SYNOPSIS
This course explores the social, political, economic and
cultural transformation of Malaysia and its impact upon
the lives of ordinary people as it has occurred from pre-
history to the present. Taking a social science approach, it
shall discuss both the dominant (stereotypical) and
alternative interpretations of Malaysian social history and
in the process illuminate how history-making occurs and
what memory is preserved in society, and why.
Through this approach, this course hopes to explain how
history and history. making affects the formation of a
Malaysian social identity, the forging of a nation-state and
the decisions that ultimately infuence the on-going
processes of social change and development. This. Ta
this end, some key themes of Malaysian social history
shall also be explored, but not necessarily in a
chronological order.
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