SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Participant Observation, Institute Of Historical Research, List Of Statistical Packages
23 Sep 2017
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Popular field research technique that may be used in conjunction with participant. May be recorded and later transcribed into text. Generalization is usually not a key objective. Choosing the research site and the research subjects. Continues until information being obtained becomes repetitive. Types of existing data used as source material: official statistics, survey data, and the analysis of books, magazines, newspapers, case files, records, and other historical documents. More common due to the use of computers and statistical software packages. The analysis of historical documents, print, and other media may be done by drawing. Historical research may involve varied forms of documents including organizational upon historical research and content analysis. science. Used in such disciplines as history and political records, old newspapers, magazines, speeches, sermons, letters, diaries, and even old interviews. Content analysis includes the examination of newspapers, magazines, tv shows, and. It usually involves taking a sample of appropriate documents and identifying and.
