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• Title:
  Using the Mass Observation Project: A Case Study in the Practice of Reusing Data
• Creator:
  Courage, Fiona
• Contributor:
  University of Sussex, The Library, Brighton, BN1 9QL, UK;
  Fiona Courage is Curator of the Mass Observation Archive and Associate Director at the University of Sussex Library. She has written and presented on Mass Observation extensively over the last 15 years and was awarded a Doctorate in Education from the University of Sussex in 2018 using Mass Observation as the data set for her research.;
  f.p.courage@sussex.ac.uk
• Description:
  Mass Observation was founded in 1937 to collect subjective, qualitative data on everyday life in Britain, and has continued to record the ordinary and the everyday ever since. Mass Observation’s purpose has always been to make the data it collects available to a range of disciplines to apply their own methodological approaches upon, resulting in data that can be reused within different projects and disciplines. This paper will use Mass Observation as a case study to illustrate how a sociological shift in attitude towards subjective data has played out in the use of a dataset traditionally viewed as a historical archive.  I will review how the data itself is used to define and design methods of analysis, examining the epistemological implications of this approach to research design and the new dimension to the researcher-data subject relationship that is introduced. I will conclude by suggesting that research using Mass Observation exemplifies the methodological opportunities and insights that can be gained by adopting a broader, multi-disciplinary research approach to reusing data.;
  Publikacja współfinansowana w ramach programu Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego pod nazwą „Narodowy Program Rozwoju Humanistyki” – projekt nr 11H 12 0305 81 (umowa nr 0027/NPRH2/H11/81/2012) pt. „Archiwum Danych Jakościowych przy IFiS PAN”, realizowany w latach 2012–2018 w Instytucie Filozofii i Socjologii PAN.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.05.24;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Łódzki
• Relation:
  Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej; 1;
  15
• Subject:
  subjective;
  qualitative;
  reuse;
  methodology;
  data
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28629 ;
  1733-8069;
  10.18778/1733-8069.15.1.03
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image