Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Falsifiability, Content Analysis, Narrative History
21 Apr 2018
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Evidence reconstructs from fragments and incomplete evidence. Distortion guards against using own awareness of factors outside the social and historical context. Human role includes the consciousness of people in a context and uses their motives as causal factors. Causes sees cause as contingent on conditions, beneath the surface, and due to a combination of elements. Micro/macro compares whole cases and links the micro- to macro- levels or layers of social reality. Cross-contexts moves between concrete specifics in a context and across contexts for more abstract comparisons. Primary sources: qualitative data or quantitative data used in historical research. It is evidence about past social life or events that was created and used by the individuals who actually lived in the historical period. Running records: a special type of existing statistics research used in historical research because the files, records, or documents are maintained in a relatively consistent manner over a period of time.
