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Book Review: Documentary Research in the Social Sciences by Malcolm Tight

Book Review: Documentary Research in the Social Sciences by Malcolm Tight 982992 JAXXXX10.1177/1936724420982992Journal of Applied Social ScienceBook Reviews book-review2020 Book Reviews Journal of Applied Social Science 2021, Vol. 15(1) 157 –162 Book Reviews © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions journals.sagepub.com/home/jax Documentary Research in the Social Sciences, by Malcolm Tight. SAGE. 2019. 232 pp. £29.99 ISBN: 9781526426659. Reviewed by: Marc Kosciejew , University of Malta, Msida, Malta DOI: 10.1177/1936724420982992 Documentary research is ubiquitous within the social sciences. Most social research, whether qualitative or quantitative, involves documents, coupled with practices with those documents, dur- ing its unfolding. Endemic within the social sciences, documentary research “differs from other forms of research in that the objects of research (the data) exist already (in the form of documents). However, the processes involved in carrying out documentary research are analogous to, and should be just as rigorous as, those employed in other forms of social research” (Tight, 2019, p. 19). There are, in fact, many forms of social research and practices that depend heavily or exclu- sively on documentary research, such as library and archival science, historical research, policy research and analysis, literature and systematic reviews, secondary data analysis, and meta-analy- ses. Recognition of documentary research, however, remains seemingly underacknowledged, even taken for granted, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Applied Social Science SAGE

Book Review: Documentary Research in the Social Sciences by Malcolm Tight

Kosciejew, Marc
Journal of Applied Social Science , Volume 15 (1): 4 – Mar 1, 2021
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982992 JAXXXX10.1177/1936724420982992Journal of Applied Social ScienceBook Reviews book-review2020 Book Reviews Journal of Applied Social Science 2021, Vol. 15(1) 157 –162 Book Reviews © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions journals.sagepub.com/home/jax Documentary Research in the Social Sciences, by Malcolm Tight. SAGE. 2019. 232 pp. £29.99 ISBN: 9781526426659. Reviewed by: Marc Kosciejew , University of Malta, Msida, Malta DOI: 10.1177/1936724420982992 Documentary research is ubiquitous within the social sciences. Most social research, whether qualitative or quantitative, involves documents, coupled with practices with those documents, dur- ing its unfolding. Endemic within the social sciences, documentary research “differs from other forms of research in that the objects of research (the data) exist already (in the form of documents). However, the processes involved in carrying out documentary research are analogous to, and should be just as rigorous as, those employed in other forms of social research” (Tight, 2019, p. 19). There are, in fact, many forms of social research and practices that depend heavily or exclu- sively on documentary research, such as library and archival science, historical research, policy research and analysis, literature and systematic reviews, secondary data analysis, and meta-analy- ses. Recognition of documentary research, however, remains seemingly underacknowledged, even taken for granted,

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