Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis
13 Apr 2018
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Focus on process and sequence, the passage of time and process are essential to how people construct social reality: unique features of historical research (pic pg 311) Steps in a historical research project: conceptualizing the object of inquiry, a historical researcher begins by becoming familiar with the setting and conceptualizing what is being studied. Synthesizing: synthesize evidence, researcher refines concepts, creates new ones, and moves toward a general explanatory model, writing a report, assembling evidence, arguments, and conclusions. Data and evidence in historical context: types of historical evidence, histiography =method of doing historical research or of gathering and analyzing historical evidence, researchers draw on 4 types of historical evidence, primary sources: ex. Letters, diaries, newspapers etc. of those who lived in the past that have survived to the present: published and unpublished written documents are the most important type of primary source. Frequent criticism: they were largely written by the elite or of those in official organizations.
