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 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.
The book interrogates all critical issues related to documentary research
Interesting and readable introduction to the subject.
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 book is good for secondary data research. Chapters 3, 5, 8, 12 and 13 are especially relevant for my module.
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.
an excellent textbook that will assists students at all levels, as well as researchers
Clearly written and accessible this book gives a useful focus to a form of research which gets relatively scant coverage in generic social research methods texts.
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.
