CYC 601 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Official Statistics, Subgroup Analysis, Data Set
13 Oct 2016
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4 criteria for assessing the quality of documents, Scott (1990: authenticity, is evidence genuine and of unquestionable origin, credibility, is evidence free from error and distortion, representativeness, is evidence typical of what it is supposed to represent, meaning, is evidence clear and comprehensible. Did the author actually write the piece: credibility. Does it reflect the true feelings of the author: representativeness. It was usually for rich people: selective survival of documents like letters. What was damaged, lost, thrown away: meaning. Used as prompts to get people to talk. Photographs: scott (1990) maintains that family photographs are of three types: Demystification: revealing, atypical portrayal (often embarrassing situations) The photographs available may not be typical of the event or episode depicted: what is not photographed may be very significant. What is chosen to be kept: social context of photographs, ask the following questions:
