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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824342903321

Autore

Prior Lindsay <1947->

Titolo

Using documents in social research / / Lindsay Prior

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2003

ISBN

1-4462-3463-0

0-85702-022-6

1-84787-667-6

0-7619-5747-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 195 p., [2] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), plan

Collana

Introducing qualitative methods

Disciplina

300.72

Soggetti

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.