Archival Research

Question 1

involves looking at
historical records to measure behaviors or
events that occurred in the past.

Answer 1

archival research

Question 2

TRUE OR FALSE. Archival research cannot be applied to the analysis of digital texts including electronic databases, emails, and web pages

Answer 2

false

Question 3

A psychologist looking
at mental institution records
from the 1900s to determine the
prevalence of depressive
symptoms in patients at the
time.

Answer 3

archival research

Question 4

TRUE OR FALSE. Archival research makes the researcher directly interact with research
participants

Answer 4

false

Question 5

provide unobtrusive measures of
process for the study of
contemporary organizations and
invaluable means of access in
historical investigations

Answer 5

archival research

Question 6

refers to basic differences in the level of analysis that conditions the type of materials that one chooses to pursue.

Answer 6

Few vs. Many

Question 7

typically restricted to the careful

and detailed scrutiny of the archival materials of a few organizations.

Answer 7

Historiographic research

Question 8

The ideal-typical distinction is between studies that make intensive use of
archival materials from a single or a few organizations

Answer 8

Few vs. Many

Question 9

use information from many organizations

Answer 9

Ecological projects

Question 10

the researcher reads through large amounts of archival information in a disciplined fashion as way to gain insights, make discoveries and generate informed judgments about the character of historical events and processes. In contrast, archival materials can be used to enable more conventional social scientific measurement by “coding” them as data.

Answer 10

Read vs. Measure

Question 11

macro patterns of social life are expected to

explain more micro processes,

Answer 11

“descending model of

analysis”

Question 12

local practices an logics of action are presumed to develop in their
own fashion after which they are incorporated at higher levels of social
organization.

Answer 12

“ascending model of analysis”

Question 13

the distinguishing characteristics of
people, organizations, and other social entities as central to
development of an adequate explanation.

Answer 13

Object oriented approach

Question 14

Analytic issue concerns which features, traits, or characteristics
of the objects

Answer 14

Object oriented approach

Question 15

focus on the features of the relations,

rather than the characteristics of the objects.

Answer 15

relational approach