Advantages of documents
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 03-04-14 13:47
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- Advantages of documents
- Personal documents such as diaries and letters enable the researcher to get close to the social actor's reality, giving insight through their richly detailed qualitative data.
- Interactionists favour this
- Sometimes, documents are the only source of information, for example in studying the past.
- By providing another source of data, documents offer an extra check on the results obtained by primary methods.
- They are a cheap source of data, because someone else has already gathered the data.
- Using existing documents saves the sociologist's time.
- Personal documents such as diaries and letters enable the researcher to get close to the social actor's reality, giving insight through their richly detailed qualitative data.
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