TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prior,Lindsay
TI  - Using documents in social research
T2  - Introducing qualitative methods
SN  - 0761957464 (hb)
AV  - HM571 .P74 2003
U1  - 300.72 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-188) and index; Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content --; Diversity in documentation --; Documents: production and function --; Writers and readers--a dynamic relationship --; Documents and their content --; Producing Facts --; From Paris 1748 to Geneva 1998 --; Death: a progress report --; Enumerating neurotics --; Documents in Action I. Documents in Organizational Settings --; An ethnomethodologist in the archive --; A Thai village circa 1968 --; Talk and text in the clinic --; Documents and organizational activity --; The politics of fog --; Conclusion: how to do things with documents --; Documents in Action II. Making things visible --; The tree of knowledge --; Of fungi and fish --; Making disease visible --; Making risk visible --; Conclusions: making work visible --; Texts, Authors, Identities --; Authors. What use are they? --; A dossier manufactures its subject --; Autobiography as a technology of self --; Sybil. A network of text and action --; Identity as performed through writing--and reading --; Content, Meaning and Reference --; Mind, meaning and interpretation --; Meaning and modernism --; Referencing death --; Referencing metaphors --; Accounting for fatigue --; Doing Things with Words --; Traveller's tales --; The scientific report --; From Kiriwana to Inishkillane --; Documents as Evidence. Researching the Inert Text --; Conjectures and refutations --; Evidence, evidence, evidence --; The selection of evidence --; The scope and robustness of data --; Data extraction: indexing and coding --; Conclusions: conjectural history --; Production, Consumption and Exchange
ER  -