Category: private documents
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Outline and explain two practical problems of using documents in social research (10)
There are a lot of documents available and it can be time consuming to analyse them qualitatively Taking news for example, there are thousands of news items published every day. You also need to distinguish between ‘real and ‘fake news’. Also, in the postmodern age where fewer people get their news from mainstream news it…
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Comparing Military Blogs and Civil War Letters
This post outlines an interesting comparative research study of secondary documents (‘private’ letters and a more public blog) which could be used to get students thinking about the usefulness of such sources in social research. I’ve taken the summary below straight from Bryman (2016) Social Research Methods: It is tempting to think that the century and a half…
