public docs

• public docs


  public documents are provided by organisstions such as government departments schools and charities
• including public docs

  • qualitive data
  • representitive
  • unlikley gain verstehn
  • both reliable and valid
  • generalisable
  • interpretivist
• practicle strengths

  • cheap
  • wide variety
  • no issues with response rate
  • no issye with Cages
• practicle limitations

  • not geninue
  • need skill
  • issue with opportunity
• how to overcome practicle limit

  use reliable sources and sociologist with time and skill
• ethical strengths

  • dont need to worry about privacy or confidentiality
• ethical limits


  very few issyes as they are all public
• theoretical strengths


  interpretivist

  valid

  dosent gain verstehn
• theoretical limits 


  positivist

  possibly not reliable

  not fully representitive

  not generalisable
• how to overcome theoretical limits

  • use historical statistics to make more reliable
• lasslet 


  the world we have lost study use of historical documents such as birth marriages
• gewitzet 


  study of marketisation and education found school brochures and prosepectus and were a useful free source