SOCI 3P02 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Photovoice, Men Only, Social Class
Document Summary
Rely on written record, art, film, photographs. What does that cemetery tell you about certain peoples situations: religion, how much money they have, lifespan, gender, social class. Archives and rare libraries: located in toronto, unpublished letters, manuscripts, diaries. Sketches, paintings: copies of birth, death, marriage certificates, land registries, maps, court records, titles to properties, architectural drawings and plans, all the meetings of minutes for municipalities. Primary documents: can get online, original timed, dated. Secondary documents: those that refer to primary documents or use primary documents in their research. Missing data is the number one problem. Biases -> doing research on someone"s opinion. Examples: historical wills: majorie griffin cohen. Document transition from family economy to wage economy. Only 2 men left property to their wives. Some gave their wives use of the land with no rights. Over 1/3 specified that the women would be disinherited if they remarried.