Historiography and Societal Security

Historiography has become a source for teaching and transmitting social knowledge, identity building, legitimation, and political and social activism in terms of the major political and social functions it plays in human life. In state-nation thinking, historiography is the basis for creating and strengthening social concepts, values ​​and norms on which political and social structures are based and have organized social solidarity, security and political order. On the other hand, following the issue of identity becoming a major problem of many societies and social groups, social security has become an important discourse in the field of security and research. The main theme of social security focuses on how to maintain and perpetuate the social and cultural identity of society, values, traditions, patterns, beliefs and religions of social groups in changing social conditions and threats to it. Accordingly, the main question of the research is "what is the relationship between the basic functions of historiography and social security?" The findings of this article, which have been done via a descriptive-analytical method and analysis of basic concepts of social security and political and social functions of historiography, indicate that there is a direct relationship between political and social functions of historiography and social security. Social security is based on the authority of identity and culture and social concepts, values ​​and norms are the main factor in creating and strengthening social security. Historiography plays a significant role in promoting social security through functions such as providing social knowledge, individual and collective identity, legitimizing the government and political units, and paving the way for social cohesion and joint socio-political action.