ORAL HISTORY RELIABILITY ARTICLE 2022

Running Head: ORAL HISTORY RELIABILITY
Oral History Reliability
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ORAL HISTORY RELIABILITY1
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Oral History: Julius Fabos..........................................................................................................2
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ORAL HISTORY RELIABILITY2
Abstract
The article depicts the reliability question being posed on oral history and its
validation through historical sources. Oral history research and its dependability and
authenticity were questioned on account of the limitation of the due process. Before the
acceptance of any kind of primary data or secondary data, the historical facts have to be
reviewed with present data such as photographs and memorandums. Concerning this, Alice
Hoffman, in her article, defines and determines the scale of measurement of the reliability
and validity of oral history reach data.
The primary medium of data collection in oral research is interviews with primary
sources that is the person experiencing history. However, this kind of data and genuineness
behind is questioned for most of the time; there is no scale to measure the reliability. Here,
Hoffman presents the solution of defining the reliability of interviews. The interviewee's
story and its validity can be tested by taking the method of making them narrate the same
story several times in which the consistency of the events and chain of occasion matching
with the first narration. The validity of oral research is, however, more crucial and complex to
measure, for it requires conforming to the written primary records of the same time. This
method of establishing the reliability and validity of primary data in the oral history field lets
the door of the primary records open for the population whose experiences could contribute
to recorded history.
Oral History: Julius Fabos
The interview consists of a first-hand survivor of World War II and the regime of
Stalin and Hitler and the disintegration of the Soviet Nation of Russia. One can see the appeal
in the recording of this particular interview, which shows the interiors and rural areas of
Yugoslavia before Hitler's Nazism took its root. Fabos' story of his childhood shows a well-
to-do family who can afford workers and tractor (Illingworth 2011). The reliability of this