M2S1 Part 1

Question 1

The historian’s primary tool of understanding and interpreting
the past is the

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historical sources

Question 2

ascertain

historical facts

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historical sources

Question 3

Using primary sources in

historical research entails two kinds of criticism.:

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External and Internal

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examines the authenticity of the document

or the evidence being used

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External C

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examines

the truthfulness of the content of the evidence

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Internal C

Question 6

technique that help to analyze the actual
content and it is features of any kind, whether it was a
word, picture, themes, text, and try to present the content
in objective and quantitative manner

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Content Analysis

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used to determine the presence of certain words,
concepts, themes, phrases, characters, or sentences within
texts or sets of texts and to quantify this presence in an
objective manner.

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Content Analysis

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can be defined broadly as books, book chapters,
essays, interviews, discussions, newspaper headlines and
articles, historical documents, speeches, conversations,
advertising, theater, informal conversation, films, photos,
websites or really any occurrence of communicative
language.

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Text

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To conduct a content analysis on a text, the text is
coded, or broken down, into manageable categories on a
variety of levels–

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word, word sense, phrase, sentence, or

theme

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text will then examined using one of content analysis’

basic methods:

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conceptual analysis or relational analysis

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can indicate pertinent features
such as comprehensiveness of coverage or the
intentions, biases, prejudices, and oversights of authors,
publishers, as well as all other persons responsible for
the content of materials.

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Content Analysis

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The Process of a Content Analysis

Six Questions must be addressed in every content analysis:

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1. Which data are analyzed?
2. How are they defined?
3. What is the users from which they are drawn?
4. What is the context relative to which the data are analyzed?
5. What are the boundaries of the analysis?
6. What is the target of the inferences?

Question 13

can be applied to examine any

piece of writing or occurrence of recorded communication.

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Content Analysis

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used in large number of fields,
ranging from marketing and media studies, to literature,
rhetoric, information studies, sociology and political
science, psychology science, as well as other fields of
inquiry.

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Content analysis

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helps us to assess text within the

context of its historical and cultural setting, and its textuality

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contextual analysis

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combines features of formal analysis with features of “cultural archaeology, ”

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contextual analysis

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This means “situating” the text within the milieu of its times and assessing the roles
of author, readers and “commentators” on the text.

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contextual analysis

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how the words are arranged in order to achieve

some purpose

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rhetoric

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the systematic study of social, political, economic, philosophical, religious, and
aesthetic conditions that were in place at the time and place when the text was
created.

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“cultural archaeology, ”

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the qualities that characterize the text as a text.

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textuality