You pick up a book called the Australia in the Penal Colony Years. When reading it, you notice that the author really only discusses the lives and ideas of five individuals based upon their diaries. The book is very micro-level. It only tells about the particular people with no generalization or integrating themes. This book illustrates which problem with secondary sources?
A. Historians often use vague concepts with inconsistent definitions to organize the primary sources they read.
B. Historians select a tiny fraction of the mass of information they read, but the selection process is largely unseen and unknown.
C. Historians often have an individualistic bias and tend to focus on actions of the specific individuals revealed in primary sources.
D. Historians, especially those who write in a narrative form, separate out significant from trivial information, but rarely make their social theories explicit.
E. Historians are influenced by various "schools" of historiography.
Answer Key: C
Research
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- A name for conceptual categories in an explanation that a researcher uses as part of the illustrative method of qualitative data analysis.
- A method of qualitative data analysis in which the researcher repeatedly moves back and forth between the empirical data and abstract concepts, theories, or models.
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- A first coding of qualitative data in which a researcher examines the data to condense them into preliminary analytic categories or codes for analyzing the data.
- Which the following is a weakness of historical-comparative research?
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- Which of the following is internal criticism of a letter by General Rao written in 1904?
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