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(1984) Sociological research methods, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The use of archival sources in social research
E. J. Webb, D. T. Campbell, R. D. Schwarz, L. Sechrest
pp. 113-130
The tablet cited here is a tombstone and the quotation is from Durand's [1960] study of life expectancy in ancient Rome and its provinces. Tombstones are but one of a plethora of archives available for the adventurous researcher, and all social scientists should now and then give thanks to those literate record-keeping societies which systematically provide so much material appropriate to novel analysis.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17619-9_7
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Webb, E. J. , Campbell, D. T. , Schwarz, R. D. , Sechrest, L. (1984)., The use of archival sources in social research, in M. Bulmer (ed.), Sociological research methods, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113-130.
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