documents

Question 1

what source of information are documents?

Answer 1

secondary

Question 2

what kind of data do documents collect?

Answer 2

qualitative data

Question 3

what methodology prefers documents?

Answer 3

interpretevist

Question 4

name the 3 types of documents?

Answer 4

public documents, personal/private documents and historical

Question 5

what is a public document?

Answer 5

documents that are produced by organisations such as schools, government departments, bussinesses and charities that are published

Question 6

what are private/personal documents?

Answer 6

includes items such as letters, diaries, photo alnums and autobiographies they are accounts of a persons personal experiences

Question 7

what are historical documents?

Answer 7

Personal or public documents created in the past

Question 8

summarise gilborn study and what documentation he used?

Answer 8

gilborn did a study on racism and schooling looked at authority guidlines and staff meeting to get an offical picture of the racism at schools which is public documentation

Question 9

summarise thomas and znaniecki’s study? and what kind of documentation was used?

Answer 9

study of immagration and social change used personal documents like the letters of the imagranates to there families

Question 10

summarise laslett study and what kind of documentation was used?

Answer 10

laslett was doing a study of pre-industrial england families used historical documents to find how the nuclear family was the main form of family at the time

Question 11

what did scott argue?

Answer 11

that one problem with secondary sources was there beliavabiility and sincerity of the author of the documents. like in thomas and znanieki’s research the writers could have lied to there families so they dont worry

Question 12

how do documents have high validity?

Answer 12

as they are qualitative dat they offer a detailed insight into the topic of research.

Question 13

how can documents be the only source of information for certain research?

Answer 13

public and personal documents may be the only source of information avalible to the researcher for example dealing with things in the past

Question 14

how are documents cheap and quick ?

Answer 14

because the researcher does not need to verify and check the data because its a secondary source potentally making it quicker

Question 15

what did thomas and znaniek’s? have to do in there research which cost money?

Answer 15

they had to pay for 700+ of the personal letters to do thier research

Question 16

what ethical strength do personal documents have?

Answer 16

limited ethical issues because there’s is no perticipants due to it being a scondary research method

Question 17

how could using documents make the research lack credibility?

Answer 17

because the author of the document could have exaggrated or lied about something in the document like politicians wanting to inflate thier own importance

Question 18

why could documents be unrepresentative?

Answer 18

many documents are atypical as they are written and depend on people being literate to write them and some may not have these skills like the working class

Question 19

how many langusge be a limitation of documents?

Answer 19

because the reasercher may have to translate the language if its in a differnt one which can also affect its validity as translations may not be accurate

Question 20

what is a possible ethical limitation?

Answer 20

lack of concent for example dealing with historical documents