Table of Contents

• VOLUME I

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  • Theory and Methods in Documentary Research

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    • 1. Social Research and Documentary Sources

      John Scott
      1990
      A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research
      

    • 2. Assessing Documentary Sources

      John Scott
      1990
      A Matter of Record: Documentary Sources in Social Research
      

    • 3. The Historian and the Historical Documents

      Louis Gottschalk
      1945
      The Use of Personal Documents in History, Anthropology, and Sociology
      

    • 4. Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: Part I, Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research

      Jennifer Platt
      1981
      Sociological Review
      

    • 5. Evidence and Proof in Documentary Research: Part II, Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research

      Jennifer Platt
      1981
      Sociological Review
      

    • 6. Analysing Cultural Objects: Content Analysis and Semiotics

      Don Slater
      1998
      Researching Society and Culture
      

    • 7. Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Content Analysis

      Alexander George
      1959
      Trends in Content Analysis
      

    • 8. Techniques of Content Analysis

      Robert Weber
      1985
      Basic Content Analysis
      

    • 9. Analytical Techniques

      Klaus Krippendorff
      1980
      Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodologies
      

    • 10. Discourse Analysis

      Rosalind Gill
      2000
      Qualitative Researching With Text, Image, and Sound
      

    • 11. Encoding/Decoding

      Stuart Hall
      1980
      Media Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies
      

    • 12. Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment

      Robert Benford | David Snow
      2000
      Annual Review of Sociology
      

    • 13. Life Stories and the Narrative Turn

      Ken Plummer
      2001
      Documents of Life
      

    • 14. Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives

      Roland Barthes
      1988
      The Semiotic Challenge
      

    • 15. Demystifying Cosmopolitan: Five Critical Methods

      Ellen McCracken
      1982
      Journal of Popular Culture
      

    • 16. Semiology and Visual Interpretation

      Norman Bryson
      1991
      Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation
      

• VOLUME II

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  • Personal Documents: Autobiographies, Letters, and Photographs

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    • 17. The Forms of Personal Documents

      Gordon Allport
      1942
      The Use of Personal Documents in Psychological Science
      

    • 18. The Use of Human Documents

      Herbert Blumer
      1939
      Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, No. 7, An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
      

    • 19. Comment on Blumer's Analysis

      William Thomas
      1939
      Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, No. 1, An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki 's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
      

    • 20. Comment on Blumer's Analysis

      Florian Znaniecki
      1939
      Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences, No. 1, An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
      

    • 21. A Critical Review of the Development of the Personal Document Method in Sociology 1920–1940

      Robert Angell
      1945
      The Use of Personal Documents in History, Anthropology, and Sociology
      

    • 22. Deconstructing the Monolithic Phallus

      Lesley Hall
      1991
      Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality, 1900–1950
      

    • 23. Maternal Relations: Moral Manliness and Emotional Survival in Letters Home During the First World War

      Michael Roper
      2004
      Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History
      

    • 24. ‘Something Sensational …’: The Sexual Diary as a Tool for Mapping Detailed Sexual Behaviour

      Tony Coxon
      1988
      Sociological Review
      

    • 25. The Modernisation of Gay and Lesbian Stories

      Ken Plummer
      1995
      Telling Sexual Stories
      

    • 26. The Autobiography of the Working Class

      John Burnett
      1984
      The Autobiography of the Working Class
      

    • 27. Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and the Slavery Debate: Bondage, Family, and the Discourse of Domesticity

      Donald Gibson
      1996
      Harrietjacobs and Incidents in The Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays
      

    • 28. Family Photography

      Christopher Musello
      1979
      Images of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences
      

    • 29. Refraining the Human Family Romance

      Marianne Hirsch
      1997
      Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory
      

    • 30. Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-War Black Settlement

      Stuart Hall
      1991
      Family Snaps: The Meanings of Domestic Photography
      

  • Published Sources, the Mass Media, and Cyber Documents

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    • 31. Some Comments on the Use of Directories in Research on Elites, with Particular Reference to the Twentieth-Century Supplements of the Dictionary of National Biography

      Colin Bell
      1974
      British Political Sociology Yearbook
      

    • 32. The Taken-for-Granted Reference: An Empirical Examination

      Ellis Thorpe
      1973
      Sociology
      

    • 33. Distribution of Space in National Newspapers

      
      1938
      Political and Economic Planning Political and Economic Planning
      

• VOLUME III

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  • Published Sources, the Mass Media, and Cyber Documents

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    • 34. Rhetorical Vision of Men and Women Managers in Singapore

      S. K. Lee | Tan Hoon
      1993
      Human Relations
      

    • 35. Introduction to A Magazine of Their Own

      Margaret Beetham
      1996
      A Magazine of Their Own: Domesticity and Desire in the Women's Magazine, 1800–1914
      

    • 36. Two-dimensional Visual Data: Images, Signs and Representations

      Michael Emmison | Phillip Smith
      2000
      Researching the Visual
      

    • 37. Maps, Knowledge, and Power

      John Harley
      1988
      Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design, and Use of Past Environments
      

    • 38. Imagery and Ideology: The Cover Photographs of Traditional Women's Magazines

      Marjorie Ferguson
      1978
      Hearth and Home: Images of Women in the Mass Media
      

    • 39. Signs Address Somebody

      Judith Williamson
      1978
      Decoding Advertisements
      

    • 40. The Mortise and the Frame: Reification and Advertising Form

      Robert Goldman
      1992
      Reading Ads Socially
      

    • 41. The Codes of Overt Advertisements

      Ellen McCracken
      1993
      Decoding Women's Magazines: From Mademoiselle to Ms
      

    • 42. Semiotics, Structuralism, and Television

      Ellen Seiter
      1987
      Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism
      

    • 43. Studies in Radio and Film Propaganda

      Robert Merton | Paul Lazarsfeld
      1943
      Transactions
      

    • 44. Refugees, Migrants and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

      Greg McLaughlin
      1999
      Message Received
      

    • 45. Dallas and Feminism

      Len Ang
      1985
      Watching Dallas
      

    • 46. A Tale of Two Aesthetics

      Sherry Turkle
      1995
      Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
      

    • 47. Identity Construction and Self-Presentation on Personal Homepages: Emancipatory Potentials and Reality Constraints

      Charles Cheung
      2004
      Web Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age
      

• VOLUME IV

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  • Official Records, Reports, and Statistics

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    • 48. Official Discourse

      Frank Burton | Pat Carlen
      1979
      Official Discourse: On Discourse Analysis, Government Publications, Ideology and the State
      

    • 49. Census Reports as Documentary Evidence: The Census Commentaries 1801–1951

      Catherine Hakim
      1980
      Sociological Review
      

    • 50. Themes and Variations in Record-Keeping

      Stanton Wheeler
      1969
      On Record: Files and Dossiers in American Life
      

    • 51. The Analysis of Company Documentation

      Nick Forster
      1994
      Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research
      

    • 52. Method and Measurement in the Study of Property

      John Scott
      1986
      Capitalist Property and Financial Power
      

    • 53. Some Notes on Record Taking and Making in an Antenatal Clinic

      Sally Macintyre
      1978
      Sociological Review
      

    • 54. Research Based on Administrative Records

      Catherine Hakim
      1983
      Sociological Review
      

    • 55. Practices of Reading and Writing: The Constitutive Role of the Patient Record in Medical Work

      Marc Berg
      1996
      Sociology of Health and Illness
      

    • 56. A Minor Office: The Variable and Socially Constructed Character of Death Certification in a Scottish City

      Michael Bloor
      1991
      Journal of Health and Social Behaviour
      

    • 57. Making Sense of the Census in Britain and the U.S.A.: The Changing Occupational Classification and the Position of Nurses

      Celia Davies
      1980
      Sociological Review
      

    • 58. A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics

      John Kitsuse | Aaron Cicourel
      1963
      Social Problems
      

    • 59. On the Sociology of Suicide

      J. Atkinson
      1968
      Sociological Review
      

    • 60. The Sociological Analysis of Social Meanings of Suicide

      Jack Douglas
      1966
      Archives Europeennes de Sociologie
      

    • 61. Criminal Statistics and Sociological Explanations of Crime

      Paul Wiles
      1971
      Crime and Delinquency in Britain
      

    • 62. How Official Statistics are Produced: Views from the Inside

      
      1979
      Demystifying Social Statistics
      

    • 63. Sexism in Official Statistics

      Ann Oakley | Robin Oakley
      1979
      Demystifying Social Statistics
      

    • 64. Why Don't Sociologists Make More Use of Official Statistics?

      Martin Bulmer
      1980
      Sociology