After reading this article you will learn about the personal and official documents as sources of data. Personal Documents: In its narrow sense, the personal document is a spontaneous first person description by an individual of his own actions, experiences and beliefs. The wide range of personal documentary material comprises autobiographies, diaries and letters and […]
Documentary Sources of Data | Data Collection | Social Research
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Controversy between Pure and Applied Science | Social Research
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After reading this article you will learn about the controversy between pure and applied science. The controversy between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ science need not be made much of, because the two are not mutually exclusive and there is a continual interplay between them. History shows how often in fact the development of science, has taken […]
Content Analysis of a Book | Techniques | Social Research | Sociology
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In this article we will discuss about the techniques used in content analysis of a book. Berelson defines ‘content analysis’ as a “research technique for the objective, systematic and quantitative description of the manifest content of communication.” Content analysis is a methodologically sophisticated version of the commonsense technique of finding out how an author of […]