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Operationalizing a QLR project on social change and whiteness in South Africa, 1770s–1970s

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The Whites Writing Whiteness project is concerned with changes to the racial order in South Africa over a long time-period and connects ‘big numbers’ and work on very large archive collections with close textual analysis of particular documents. It uses longitudinal data within a Qualitative Longitudinal Research methodological approach, combining formal analysis with a sampling process. In operationalizing this, letters from the Findlay Family collection with thousands of documents, a group of around 190 letters by Elizabeth Price, and a small set of Gottlob Schreiner’s letters, are discussed. In doing so, useful conceptual and methodological tools for analysing other large longitudinal datasets are provided.

Source: International Journal of Social Research Methodology

DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2015.1017899

Author: Liz Stanley

Institution: University of Edinburgh

Language: English

Topic: Data Analysis and Archiving

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $667