What type of source are documents?

Who are documents created by?

Give some examples of personal documents

Give some examples of public documents

What type of data could documents contain?

Why do interpretivists use documents?

Why do interpretivists regard documents as high in validity?

Why do positivists reject the use of documents?

How would positivists use documents?

What are 2 advantages of personal documents?

What are some disadvantages of personal documents?

Public documents are often what?

Why may the contents of public documents be bias?

What advantages comes with government funded documents like the Black Report?

What is the only way we can study past societies with no survivors to question?

What is the disadvantage of studying historical documents?

Why may some historical documents give an unrepresentative picture of the past?

How can news reports be quantified?

What doesn't content analysis tell us?

How do interpretivists get round this?

What problem does this have?

John Scott suggests 4 tests of any document. What are these?

What questions should be asked to test a documents authority?

What question should be asked to test a documents credibility?

"How typical is the document of a wider social group?" Is a question we could ask to test the...

Why are documents useful to sociologists?

Why may documents not be useful to sociologists?

What does this mean about the position of documents in studies?