ABSTRACT
Newspapers, magazines, hospital and physician records, legal proceedings, political campaign information, and church documents are some of the sources that researchers examine for historical information. Like research using content analysis to obtain data, historical research requires decisions about selection of sources and coding the information. Historical research relies on information that has been gathered for purposes other than research, users of historical data need to consider whether the requisite information is available to conduct social research on a given topic. The emotions of mothers and of fathers are evaluated quite differently from one another, whereas little if any distinction is drawn between the emotional reactions of sons and of daughters. Mothers are represented as exhibiting a tendency to be emotional; the expression of this emotion, if it should become “out of control,” is construed as a serious threat to the child’s achievement of healthy maturity.
