PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC DEFINITIONS OF DOCUMENT (CONTENT) ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

The method of document (content) analysis in social sciences is an important factor of a science, scientific knowledge. Scientific knowledge about this scientific method in the methodology of social and political sciences indicates that this is a highly complex and thorough scientific method, with which particular knowledge on social, political and other phenomena and processes is obtained not only from near, but also from distant past. In the existing scientific corpus there is no universal agreement as to the scientific definitions of this scientific method. In logic and methodology, document (content) analysis was unjustifiably considered to be just an assisting tool in the research of particular phenomena and processes.