CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Historical Method, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 262
• Professor: Daniel Ahadi

Document Summary

3 assignments: documentary research, ethnographic research, discourse analysis. Primary: refers to something first hand, raw data, e. g. diaries, speeches, letters, interviews, works of art (poetry, drama), autobiographies, etc. Secondary: has (re)appropriated that primary source into something else, can be years, decades, centuries apart, e. g. biographies, monographs, textbooks, wikipedia, newspaper and magazine articles, etc. Personal documents: any type of archive, documentation that is private of some sort, old family albums, can give clues to researcher about cultures, religions, etc, could demonstrate things that happened many years ago. Is viewed as non-i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d (cid:374)o(cid:374)esse(cid:374)tial; people do(cid:374)"t thi(cid:374)k it describes real social issues. It is of the past; no longer capable of illuminating what goes on in society today. Official documents: government documents, national archives, municipal archives, etc, (cid:862)mo(cid:396)e (cid:448)alua(cid:271)le(cid:863) i(cid:374) helpi(cid:374)g to u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial issues. Just theories; depends on how you appropriate these documents into your research.