After reading this article you will learn about the relevance of history for social research. A group of thinkers, during the relatively brief period in which social science has been recognized as a disciplined form of intellectual endeavour, has tried to effect a rigid differentiation between what are conventionally known as social sciences, like sociology and economics on the one [...]
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 [...]