Documentary & Archival Research

VOLUME ONE: Human Documents - Perspectives and Approaches Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content - Lindsay Prior An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America - Herbert Blumer Comment on Herbert Blumer's Appraisal - Florian Znaniecki Nomothetic and Idiographic uses - G. Allport The Use of Personal Documents in Historical Sociology - Hyman Marianpolski and Dana Hughes To the Letter: Thomas and Znaniecki's the Polish Peasant and Writing a Life, Sociologically - Liz Stanley For a Humanistic Way in Social Science - Ken Plummer Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: Part I - Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research - J. Platt Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: Part II - Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research - J. Platt Biographical Turn in the Social Sciences? A British-European View - Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne and Joanna Bornat Foucault and Critique: Kant, Humanism, and the Human Sciences - M. Olssen Critical Humanism in a Post-Modern World - Ken Plummer Assumptions of the Method - Norman Denzin Autobiography and Biography - Brian Roberts Auto/Biography and Sociology - Brian Roberts The Social Science of Biographical Life-Writing: Some Methodological and Ethical Issues - Ann Oakley Is There a Feminist Auto/Biography? - L. Stanley Repositioning Documents in Social Research - Lindsay Prior Historians and Oral History - P. Thompson Constructing Credible Images: Documentary Studies, Social Research and Visual Studies - Jon Wagner VOLUME TWO: Analysing Human Documents Assessing Documentary Sources - John Scott Analysing Documentary Realities - Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey Doing Historical and Documentary Research - Ben Gidley Content, Meaning and Reference - Lindsay Prior An Introduction to Content Analysis - B. Berg and H. Lune The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture - Ian Hodder Using Visual Methods and Documents - Jennifer Mason The Interpretation of Pictures and the Documentary Method - Ralf Bohnsack Comments on Elias's "Scenes from the Life of a Knight" - Eric Dunning How to Look at Family Photographs: Practices, Objects, Subjects and Places - G. Rose Videography: Analysing Video Data as a "Focused" Ethnographic and Hermeneutical Exercise - Hubert Knoblauch and Bernt Schnettler What Is Discourse Analysis? - B. Paltridge Theoretical Background - Linda Wood and Rolf Kroger Exploring Conversations about and with Documents - Tim Rapley The Epistolarium: On Theorizing Letters and Correspondences - Liz Stanley Analyzing Biographies and Narratives - G. Gibbs Pearls, Pith, and Provocation: Ethical Issues in the Documentary Data Analysis of Internet Posts and Archives - Judith Sixsmith and Craig Murray Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations - D. Beer and R. Burrows Towards a Sociological Understanding of Social Media: Theorizing Twitter - Dhiraj Murthy VOLUME THREE: Human Documents in Social Research Methods of Field Research 2: Interviews as Conversation - R. Burgess "DEAR RESEARCHER": The Use of Correspondence as a Method within Feminist Qualitative Research - Gayle Letherby and Dawn Zdrodowski Documents in Action I: Documents in Organisational Settings - Lindsay Prior Documents in Action II: Making Things Visible - Lindsay Prior The Journal Project: Research at the Boundaries between Social Sciences and the Arts - Judith Davidson "Thanks for the Memory": Memory Books as a Methodological Resource in Biographical Research - Rachel Thomson and Janet Holland Imagining The Sociological Imagination: The Biographical Context of a Sociological Classic - John Brewer Introduction - M. Keen Filling the Silences? Mass-Observations's Wartime Diaries, Interpretive Work and Indexicality - Andrea Salter Autoethnography and Therapy Writing on the Move - Jeannie Wright Narratives of the Night: The Use of Audio Diaries in Researching Sleep - J. Hislop, S. Arber, R. Meadows and S. Venn Making Use of Audio Diaries in Research with Young People: Examining Narrative, Participation and Audience - N. Worth The Photograph in Theory - E. Chaplin Picture This: Researching Child Workers - Angela Bolton, Christopher Pole and Phillip Mizen Mourning the Family Album - Tahneer Oksman Good Young Nostalgia: Camera Phones and Technologies of Self among Israeli Youths - Ori Schwarz Digital Biography: Capturing Lives Online - Paul Longley Arthur Celebrity Bio Blogs: Hagiography, Pathography, and Perez Hilton - Elizabeth Podnieks 'My Vagina Makes Funny Noises': Analyzing Online Forums to Assess the Real Sexual Health Concerns of Young People - A. Cohn and J. Richters VOLUME FOUR: Archival Research Behind the Scenes: Records and Archives - G. McCulloch Secondary Analysis of Archived Data - Louise Corti and Paul Thompson Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data - Clive Seale The Ordinariness of the Archive - Thomas Osborne Archive - Mike Featherstone The Archive, Disciplinarity, and Governing: Cultural Studies and the Writing of History - Craig Robertson Ethical Problems in Archival Research: Beyond Accessibility - Pamela Innes Archival Research as a Social Process - N. Lerner Keeping the Conversation Going: The Archive Thrives on Interviews and Oral History - B. Lucas and M. Strain Museums, the Sociological Imagination and the Imaginary Museum - Gordon Fyfe Ilya Neustadt, Norbert Elias, and the Leicester Department: Personal Correspondence and the History of Sociology in Britain - John Goodwin and Jason Hughes On Behaviour at the Table - Norbert Elias On the Relationship between Literature and Sociology in the Work of Norbert Elias - Helmut Kuzmics Extracts from Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution in Britain - E. Pike Writing to the Archive: Mass-Observation as Autobiography - Dorothy Sheridan Using the Mass-Observation Archive as a Source for Women's Studies - Dorothy Sheridan Research Methodology in Mass Observation Past and Present: "Scientifically, about as Valuable as a Chimpanzee's Tea Party at the Zoo? - Annebella Pollen Working-Class Identities in the 1960s: Revisiting the Affluent Worker Study - Mike Savage Data and Archives: The Internet as Site and Subject - Fiona Gill and Catriona Elder Recent Developments in Archiving Social Research - Louise Corti