Chapter 7

Question 1

Four Criteria for Quality of Documents:

Answer 1

authenticity

credibility

representativeness

meaning

Question 2

Personal Documents

Answer 2

journals, diaries, letters, and autobiographies

Question 3

Government documents

Answer 3

voting records, official reports, and census information

Question 4

Official documents from Private Sources

Answer 4

documents produced by companies and other private organizations

Question 5

Mass Media Outputs

Answer 5

newspapers, magazines, the TV and film

Question 6

Virtual Outputs

Answer 6

websites, blogs, online chatrooms and discussion groups

Question 7

Secondary Data Analysis

Answer 7

analyzing, reclassifying, and interpreting data that was by collected by other researchers

Question 8

Advantages of Secondary Data Analysis

Answer 8

Low cost
Less time consuming
Provides high quality data
Large sample sizes
Opportunity for longitudinal analysis
Can be reanalyzes

Question 9

Disadvantages of Secondary Data Analysis

Answer 9

lack of data familiarity
Complexity of data
ecological fallacy may become part of the analysis
No control over data quality
Absence of key variables

Question 10

Advantages of Official Stats

Answer 10

often based in populations

reactivity is less pronounced

chance for longitudinal and cross cultural analysis

Question 11

Disadvantage of Official Stats

Answer 11

records only individuals processed by the government

Question 12

Other types of unobtrusive measures include:

Answer 12

physical traces

archive material

sine observation

Question 13

Unobtrusive Methods

Answer 13

research methods in which the researcher does not directly interact with the research subjects

removes the threat of reactivity