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Using Documents in Social Research offers a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research. The books argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity, and therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature of human activity they are integral to the research process. Key features of the book include: Alerts students to the diversity of social scientific research documents. Outlines the various strategies and debates that need to be considered in order to integrate the study of documents into a research project. Offers a number of examples where documents have been used within a variety of research contexts. The book is written in an easy and engaging style which makes it accessible to undergraduates and postgraduate students. It will be essential reading for students and researchers across a range of social science disciplines.
Texts, Authors, Identities
Texts, Authors, Identities
Authors. What use are they?
In 1761 Rousseau's fictional work, LaNouvelle Héloïse, appeared. By 1800 more than 70 editions of the book had been published (Darnton, 1984). The book's full title is Julie or the New Héloïse. Letters if two lovers, residents if a small town at the foot of the Alps’. For a twenty-first century reader the novel has little to attract it. As a book, it is overlong, it has no discernible plot, it rambles persistently, and it contains no explicit reference whatsoever to sex or violence. Yet, as Darnton (1984) suggests, and as the single ...
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