After reading this term paper you will learn about:- 1. The Stimulus to Datum Sequence 2. Responses of Data Collection 3. Setting 4. Sources. Term Paper # 1. The Stimulus to Datum Sequence: A datum is what is observed, is manifest or phenotypical. Data in social sciences, as in other sciences, are based on our sense-observations. The word 'observation' as [...]
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 [...]