secondary resources

Letters

Letters are personal documents and they are favoured by Interpretivists as it enables them to understand individual meanings and matives deep understanding or Verstehen

Diaries

Diaries are personal documents too, but they provide a huge amount of detail of daily experiences. They are favoured by Interpretivists as it enables them to understand individual meanings and motives deep understanding or verstehen.

Newspapers

Content analysis count the number of times a work is used

1) count the words

2) look at the meanings

Official statistics

Collected by the government and its agencies.

It's favoured by positivists.

Establish patterns trends. Enable them to take a macro view,

Official statistics are a secondary method (the data already exists)Less practical issues as they are Easy to access free.