'Waar heeft de Annales de cultuurgeschiedenis gelaten?', in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 23 (1997), p.61-72 In the past ten years the Annales school in Paris has substituted her quantitative, structuralist approach of history for a new socio-historical view, inspired by the work of Boltanski and Thévenot. In a recent article in the Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis Marc Jacobs analyses and argues in favor of these developments. He omits, however, a critical point in this strategic turn: the omission of cultural history and the ambivalent reaction to the underlying threat of the 'linguistic turn' in the field of history. In this essay the contribution of Jacobs and the recent developments he describes, are critically examined, using loosely central concepts that have been introduced by Boltanski and Thévenot themselves.