documents Flashcards
1
Q
what are public documents?
A
produced by organisations
2
Q
what are personal documents?
A
produced by first person accounts of their experience
3
Q
what are historical documents?
A
personal or public documents created in the past
4
Q
what are some practical issues of documents?
A
may be the only available source of data
free or cheap way to gain a lot of data and is not time consuming
not always able to access them
not created for sociologist purpose
5
Q
what are some theoretical issues of documents?
A
likely to be valid
may be unreliable
not all documents survive for are available
