Analyzing Documentary Accounts

Informationen zum Autor Research Interests: comparative social change; gender; race; work and inequality Klappentext All kinds of human behaviour are observed and written about or documented. Ethnographers can be seen as "documentary accountants" - they observe and provide analysis. This book shows how to use documentary works as data sources, and how qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques can be combined. It shows how care must be taken with sampling and coding, and gives attention to reliability and validity issues, showing how to begin statistical exploration once the data are assembled. Zusammenfassung Guides the reader through the use of documentary accounts as data sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Successful Applications and Extensions Selecting and Coding Documents Analyzing Documentary Accounts Reliability and Validity Summary

Product details

• Authors: Randy Hodson, Randy Dale Hodson, HODSON RANDY DALE
• Assisted by: Randy Dale Hodson (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1999
• EAN: 9780761917434
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1743-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Quantitative Applications in t; Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences; Quantitative Applications in t
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories