Using Documents in Social Research.

By: Prior, LindsayMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Introducing Qualitative Methods seriesPublisher: London : SAGE Publications, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781847876676Subject(s): Research -- Methodology | Sociology -- Research -- MethodologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Using Documents in Social ResearchDDC classification: 300.72 LOC classification: HM571 -- .P74 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content -- What is a document? -- Diversity in documentation -- Documents: production and function -- Writers and readers - a dynamic relationship -- Documents and their content -- Conclusions and key points -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 2 Producing Facts -- From Paris 1748 to Geneva 1998 -- Death: a progress report -- Enumerating neurotics -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 3 Documents in Action I. Documents In Organizational Settings -- An ethnomethodologist in the archive -- A Thai village circa 1968 -- Talk and text in the clinic -- Documents and organizational activity -- The politics of fog -- Conclusion: how to do things with documents -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 4 Documents in Action II. Making things visible -- The tree of knowledge -- Of fungi and fish -- Making disease visible -- Making risk visible -- Conclusions: making work visible -- Research questions -- Notes -- 5 Texts, Authors, Identities -- Authors. What use are they? -- A dossier manufactures its subject -- Autobiography as a technology of self -- Sybil. A network of text and action -- Identity as performed through writing - and reading -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 6 Content, Meaning and Reference -- Mind, meaning and interpretation -- Meaning and modernism -- Referencing death -- Referencing metaphors -- Accounting for fatigue -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 7 Doing Things with Words -- Traveller's tales -- The scientific report -- From Kiriwana to Inishkillane -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 8 Documents as Evidence. Researching the Inert Text -- Conjectures and refutations -- Evidence, evidence, evidence -- The selection of evidence -- The scope and robustness of data.
Data extraction: indexing and coding -- Conclusions: conjectural history -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 9 Production, Consumption and Exchange -- Lessons from southern Sudan -- Circuits of production and consumption -- The sociology of the Kula -- Documents as technology -- A final plea -- Research exercises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research.
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Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content -- What is a document? -- Diversity in documentation -- Documents: production and function -- Writers and readers - a dynamic relationship -- Documents and their content -- Conclusions and key points -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 2 Producing Facts -- From Paris 1748 to Geneva 1998 -- Death: a progress report -- Enumerating neurotics -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 3 Documents in Action I. Documents In Organizational Settings -- An ethnomethodologist in the archive -- A Thai village circa 1968 -- Talk and text in the clinic -- Documents and organizational activity -- The politics of fog -- Conclusion: how to do things with documents -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 4 Documents in Action II. Making things visible -- The tree of knowledge -- Of fungi and fish -- Making disease visible -- Making risk visible -- Conclusions: making work visible -- Research questions -- Notes -- 5 Texts, Authors, Identities -- Authors. What use are they? -- A dossier manufactures its subject -- Autobiography as a technology of self -- Sybil. A network of text and action -- Identity as performed through writing - and reading -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 6 Content, Meaning and Reference -- Mind, meaning and interpretation -- Meaning and modernism -- Referencing death -- Referencing metaphors -- Accounting for fatigue -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 7 Doing Things with Words -- Traveller's tales -- The scientific report -- From Kiriwana to Inishkillane -- Conclusions -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 8 Documents as Evidence. Researching the Inert Text -- Conjectures and refutations -- Evidence, evidence, evidence -- The selection of evidence -- The scope and robustness of data.

Data extraction: indexing and coding -- Conclusions: conjectural history -- Research exercises -- Notes -- 9 Production, Consumption and Exchange -- Lessons from southern Sudan -- Circuits of production and consumption -- The sociology of the Kula -- Documents as technology -- A final plea -- Research exercises -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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