Using Documents and Records in Social Research (Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184920733X ISBN 13: 9781849207331

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Although almost all social research is dependent on documentation in one way or another, the role of documents in the research process is more often than not underplayed. Indeed, in most social scientific studies, documents and records tend to enter and leave the 'field' in relative silence, and their place in empirical research is often associated with the use of 'unobtrusive' techniques. This collection aims to rectify this anomaly by collecting together a body of papers that highlights the different ways in which documents and records have, and can be, approached and studied in a variety of social research contexts. By assembling key papers from studies in fields as diverse as criminology, health, education, and organizational research, as well as science and technology studies, the volumes illustrate how documents and records figure in all aspects of the research process from research design, through to data collection, data analysis and report writing.

Volume I: The Study of Content
Volume II: The Social Construction of Documents and Records
Volume III: Documents in 'the Field'
Volume IV: Documents in Networks

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Lindsay Prior is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen’s University, Belfast, and visiting Professor in the School of Public Health. He is the author of Using Documents in Social Research (SAGE, 2003) and editor of the 4-volume Using Documents and Records in Social Research (SAGE, 2011). His most recent journal publications―in, Social Science & Medicine, Critical Public Health, Sociology of Health & Illness, have focused on various aspects of public health practice and policy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184920733X
• ISBN 13: 9781849207331
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1664
• Herausgeber: Prior Lindsay
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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