Using Documents in Social Research

Lindsay Prior is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast, and visiting Professor in the School of Public Health. He is the author of Using Documents in Social Research (SAGE, 2003) and editor of the 4-volume Using Documents and Records in Social Research (SAGE, 2011). His most recent journal publications-in, Social Science & Medicine, Critical Public Health, Sociology of Health & Illness, have focused on various aspects of public health practice and policy.

Basic Themes Use, Production and Content Producing Facts Documents in Action I Documents in Organizational Settings Documents in Action II Making Things Visible Texts, Authors, Identities Content, Meaning and Reference Doing Things with Words Documents as Evidence Researching the Inert Text Production, Consumption and Exchange