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- 1What type of source are documents?Secondary
- 2Who are documents created by?Individuals, organisations or groups
- 3Give some examples of personal documentsDiaries, letters, autobiographies, notes, photo albums
- 4Give some examples of public documentsGovernment reports, charity reports, business reports that are available to the public
- 5What type of data could documents contain?Qualitative or statistical
- 6Why do interpretivists use documents?They prefer open-ended research methods that produce valid, quantitative data that allows them to see the meaning attached to events
- 7Why do interpretivists regard documents as high in validity?Because they are the freely expressed meanings of those who produce them
- 8Why do positivists reject the use of documents?They lack reliability and representativeness
- 9How would positivists use documents?Use the statistical data or convert the qualitative data into quantitative data using content analysis
- 10What are 2 advantages of personal documents?- They often have a high degree of validity because they are created for personal purpose and so provide genuine insight into peoples attitudes
- Cheap and save time as they are already there - 11What are some disadvantages of personal documents?- Some personal documents can be hard to access
- Some groups are unlikely to produce personal docs and so their views are not represented whereas those with the time and skills may be over-represented
- Some personal documents are created after the event with hindisght
- Personal bias may be present
- Some personal docs are written with an audience in mind which could affect what is recorded - 12Public documents are often what?Plentiful, detailed, cheap and easy to access
- 13Why may the contents of public documents be bias?The publisher is aware that they are open to the public
- 14What advantages comes with government funded documents like the Black Report?They are full with data that the sociologist would have been unable to collect themselves
- 15What is the only way we can study past societies with no survivors to question?Historical documents
- 16What is the disadvantage of studying historical documents?Interpretation - meanings of words change over time
- 17Why may some historical documents give an unrepresentative picture of the past?Some are lost or destroyed
- 18How can news reports be quantified?In terms of amounts of time/space given to particular points of view
- 19What doesn't content analysis tell us?Its meaning
- 20How do interpretivists get round this?They use qualitative content analysis to examine the meanings attached to particular words and images
- 21What problem does this have?Interpretation - different researchers may interpret the same image or statement differently
- 22John Scott suggests 4 tests of any document. What are these?Meaning, authenticity, representativeness, credibility
- 23What questions should be asked to test a documents authority?Is it genuine? Is it what it claims to be?
- 24What question should be asked to test a documents credibility?Can we believe the document and the sincerity of the author?
- 25"How typical is the document of a wider social group?" Is a question we could ask to test the...Representativeness
- 26Why are documents useful to sociologists?They provide insights to social behaviour, they can provide a historical or 'insider' perspective
- 27Why may documents not be useful to sociologists?If they are limited in terms of availability, representativeness and lack of systematisation, and they may not cover all areas of sociological inrest
- 28What does this mean about the position of documents in studies?They are rarely the main element but often contribute an important dimension to the research
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- Questions and answers on the documents section of the research methods topic of unit 2 AS AQA Sociology. Includes personal and public documents, advantages and disadvantages of both and evaluation.
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