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 other artistic and projective documents [...]
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 a book has treated a [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the problem of objectivity in social inquiry. The problem of objectivity is one of knowing reality. In addition to questions related to being, objectivity involves two other considerations, viz., the correct method of dealing with any question and of how we know anything (Epistemology). It has been argued that the social scientists [...]