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The Use of Secondary Analysis in the Study of Women and Social Change
Author(s) -
Colby Anne
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1982.tb00846.x
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , social change , field (mathematics) , social analysis , psychology , sociology , management science , social science , political science , engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , law
This paper presents a discussion of the special relevance of secondary analysis for the study of women and social change. Methodological problems associated with the use of existing data are summarized and some means of surmounting or taking account of those problems are suggested. The paper concludes with a discussion of the contributions that secondary analysis can make both to individual researchers and to the field of social science generally.