Documents

Question 1

Personal Doc

Answer 1

• written by an individual for own purposes e.g. diaries

Question 2

Public Doc

Answer 2

• accessible to public e.g. newspapers/OFTSED reports

Question 3

Historical Doc

Answer 3

• public/personal document produced in the past e.g. Anne Frank’s diary

Question 4

Personal Documents - Hey

Answer 4

• carried out a study about the formation of schoolgirl friendships
• used notes that girls passed to one another in lessons. Taken from the bin after the lesson
• looked at the girls’ diaries to collect data
• gained trust and friendship from swapping diaries

Question 5

Historical/Personal Documents - Anne Frank (1947)

Answer 5

• secondary data to investigate the holocaust
• she was 13 when she started writing the diary, died at the age of 15
• Historical = deep insights into how Jews were treated during Nazi Holocaust
• Personal = due to the diary being written from her perspective

Question 6

PET analyse (Hey)

Answer 6

Practical - cheap source of data, may not be documents available for the topics sociologists want to study
Ethical - few ethical concerns, important to gain informed consent
Theoretical -verstehen, difficult to interpret

Question 7

PET analyse (Anne Frank)

Answer 7

Practical - only source of information to study past, contain sensitive information
Ethical - historical = no consent, unique challenges
Theoretical - valid, not genuine (hoax)