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Social Research and Documentary Sources 2. Assessing Documentary Sources 3. The Use of Documents in Social Research 4. The Official Realm: Public and Private 5. Administrative Routines and Situated Decisions 6. Explorations in Official Documents 7. The Public Sphere and Mass Communications 8. Personal Documents undergraduates and academics in sociology, history, geography, humanities some general readership among amateurs in family history and local history
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