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What are Public Documents?

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Produced by organisations such as the Government,businesses, charities etc.
Some output may be used for sociological use (offsted reports etc.)

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What are Personal Documents?

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First person accounts of social events and personal experiences that generally include the writers feelings and attitudes.
(Letters diaries etc. )

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What are Historical Documents? (Study)

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Can be either personal or public. If we want to study past these are usually the only source of info.
ARIES used paintings of children and child-rearing manuals in his study of childhood

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Assessing Documents (4 criteria)

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SCOTT argues that when it comes to assessing documentary sources, must use 4 criteria for evaluating

-Authenticity :is it what it claims to be?
-Credibility:Is the document believable?
-Representativeness: Is the evidence in the document typical?
-Meaning: Diff sociologists interpret thing’s different

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Advantages of documents (2)

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-They allow sociologists to get up close to the social actors reality (rich detailed and qualitative data).

-Cheap source of data + time efficient

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Content Analysis

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A method for dealing systematically with the contents of documents, it is commonly used in analysing media documents such as the news or advertisements. (Produce/ quantitate data)

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Content Analysis

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A method for dealing systematically with the contents of documents, it is commonly used in analysing media documents such as the news or advertisements. (Produce/ quantitate data)

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Content Analysis Study (TUCHMAN)

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TUCHMAN used it to analyse TV’s portrayal of women, and found that women were portrayed in a limited number of stereotypical roles.

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Advantages of Content Analysis

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-cheap and easy to find sources of material
-Positivists see it as a useful source of objective, quantitative, scientific data.

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Advantages of Content Analysis

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-cheap and easy to find sources of material
-Positivists see it as a useful source of objective, quantitative, scientific data.

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Disadvantages of Content Analysis (1)

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-Interpretivists would argue that simply counting up the numbers of times something appears in a document tells us nothing about its meaning

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