Secondary sources Flashcards
1
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What are the 7 types of secondary sources?
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Official statistics, population data, crime, social trends, historical documents, life histories, mass media
2
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What is content analysis?
A
The analysis of documents or visual material
3
Q
What is demography?
A
The study of population and trends
4
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Advantages of secondary sources
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They are cost efficient, have information about things that happened in the past giving a different perspective
5
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Disadvantages of secondary sources
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They lack validity because you don’t know where the data has been collected from and who from, could be biased to aid political problems at the time
