AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192
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The systematic study of documents or images using categories to code content and count the occurrence of particular features or themes.
Revise: Research terminology for studying familiesContent analysis systematically examines documents or images using defined categories. A researcher studying family representations in advertisements could create categories for the family arrangements shown, code each advertisement and count each category. Clear definitions help different researchers classify the same material consistently.
- Revise: Education key terms
Analysis of documents or images by defining categories, coding material and counting occurrences, for example counting gender representations in textbooks.