Documents

Question 1

Is documents a primary or secondary data?

Answer 1

Secondary data

Question 2

What are 3 researchs for this and explain?

Answer 2

1) personal documents (hey) - she did a study on schoolgirl friendships and took their notes from the bin, also gained trust and swapped each others diaries
2) public documents - collected by government, buisinesses etc
3) Historical/personal documents (Anne frank) (1947) - shows a deep insight on how the Jews were treated, written from her perspective

Question 3

What are 2 advantages of practical?

Answer 3

1) historical documents can be the only source from the past
2) cheap as the research has already been gathered

Question 4

What is 1 advantage of ethical?

Answer 4

1) don’t need consent for historical and public

Question 5

What are 2 advantages of theoretical?

Answer 5

1) interpretivists like this method as you get validity and verstehen
2) personal documents are valid

Question 6

What are 2 disadvantages of practical?

Answer 6

1) authenticity - is the document what it claims to be?
2) documents may be sensitive so issues with access

Question 7

What is 1 disadvantage of ethical?

Answer 7

1) perosnal documents need informed consent e.g Anne Frank

Question 8

What are 2 disadvantages of theoretical?

Answer 8

1) positivists dislike as it lacks representativeness
2) researcher will
Impose their own meaning