Documents

Question 1

MacPhearson Report (1999)

Answer 1

Institutionalised racism in the UK police force.

Question 2

Gerwitz

Answer 2

collected a range of school documents including brochures, prospectuses and planning reports to study marketization within education – She found that schools were now allocating valuable resources into selling themselves to potential ‘customers’.

Question 3

Lobban

Answer 3

reviewed 179 stories used in primary schools to teach children to read and found that females were nearly always presented in domestic roles.

Question 4

Znaniecki

Answer 4

studied migration and social change within Polish migrants to Chicago. They used personal documents to reveal the interpretations and meanings that individuals gave to their experience. As interactionalists, they were particularly interested in people’s experiences of events and the meanings that individuals gave to their experience of migration.

Question 5

Anderson

Answer 5

used parliamentary reports on child labour, as well as statistical material from the 1851 Census, to study changes in family structure in 19th century Preston.

Question 6

Aries

Answer 6

used child-rearing manuals and paintings of children in his study of the rise of the modern notion of childhood.