Documentary Research in the Social Sciences
- Malcolm Tight - Lancaster University, UK
From diaries and letters to surveys and interview transcripts, documents are a cornerstone of social science research. This book guides you through the documentary research process, from choosing the best research design, through data collection and analysis, to publishing and sharing research findings.
Using extensive case studies and examples, it situates documentary research within a current context and empowers you to use this method to meet new challenges like digital research and big data head on.
In a jargon-free style perfect for beginner researchers, this book helps you to:
· Interrogate documentary material in meaningful ways
· Choose the best research design for your project, from literature reviews to policy research
· Understand a range of approaches, including quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.
Accessible, clear and focused, this book gives you the tools to conduct your own documentary research and celebrates the importance of documentary analysis across the social sciences.
This book has supported the students to understand how to do documentary research. The book is comphrenshive but designed in a user friendly and accesible style.
We need to consider a wider range of research methods and approaches that does not rely on primary research methods. This book certainly provides useful information and insights written in a clear crisp narrative.
This well-organised and practical text is a good introduction for students undertaking documentary research. It introduces a variety of genres of documents and provides an outline of analytical techniques for both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
As a historian by training, but now within a Business School, this is a text to recommend to my students working on research projects (any level) to think this through at a deeper level. Particularly useful insights into the different kinds of literature/systematic reviews.
Much needed clear and comprehensive reference book from Tight on documentary research.
Interesting and readable introduction to the subject.
The book interrogates all critical issues related to documentary research
Amazingly comprehensive for its slim size and very accessibly written, this book will provide an excellent introduction for students and novice researchers.
Excellent book about documentary research. Students find it very useful to conduct their research.
This book is good for secondary data research. Chapters 3, 5, 8, 12 and 13 are especially relevant for my module.
