Documents (qualitative secondary data)
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 04-05-19 16:29
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- documents (qualitative secondary data)
- public
- government reports etc
- strenghts
- lots of social life covered
- plentiful, cheap
- qualitative, detailed useful for interpretivists
- easily accessible
- weaknesses
- political bias, selective info, bias
- may not be representative
- meaning may have changed
- personal
- strengths
- high degree of validity
- give genuine insight
- in depth qualitative data useful for interpretivists
- already available, cheap
- Untitled
- weaknesses
- unrepresentative- only certain groups might produce personal documents
- invalid- memory might be innaccurate
- unethical if used without permission
- strengths
- historical
- strenghts
- may be the only way to study the past
- weaknesses
- meaning may have changed
- difficult to gain
- documents lost or destroyed/ incomplete
- difficult to analyse
- strenghts
- judging the usefulness- john scott
- authenticity- is it genuine
- credibility- is it believeable, honest
- representativness- is it typical of those at the time
- meaning- do they have the same meanings now
- public
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