Using documents in social research / Lindsay Prior.

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Prior, Lindsay, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Introducing qualitative methodsPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 195 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780857020222
0857020226
9781847876676
1847876676
9781446234631
1446234630

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Using documents in social research.DDC classification:

300.72 22

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HM571 .P74 2003

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70.03

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; 1 -- Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content; 2 -- Producing Facts; 3 -- Documents in Action I. Documents in Organizational Settings; 4 -- Documents in Action II. Making things visible; 5 -- Texts, Authors, Identities; 6 -- Content, Meaning and Reference; 7 -- Doing Things with Words; 8 -- Documents as Evidence. Researching the Inert Text; 9 -- Production, Consumption and Exchange; Bibliography; Index.

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Summary: This comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity. Therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature of human activity they are integral to the research process.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-188) and index.

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This comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity. Therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature of human activity they are integral to the research process.