The observational method is one of the most used in the social sciences and has some curious aspects. On the one hand, it can be considered as the most primitive and, consequently, the most imprecise.
Documentary method is a type of research that uses primary sources, that is, data and information that have not yet been treated scientifically or analytically. Documentary research has specific objectives and can be a rich complement to bibliographic research.
The analyzed documents can be current or old, and can be used for historical, cultural, social and economic context of a place or group of people, at a certain moment in history. For this reason, it is a type of research widely used in the social and human sciences.
- children's play in schools (<u>situation</u>)
In the observational method, these games will be closely analyzed so that we can survey the information gathered from the observation of these children playing in schools.
In the documentary method, qualitative analyzes will be made about the given phenomenon, and it is also possible to make quantitative analyzes, when analyzing databases with numerical information
