Life documents are sources that involve the expression of feelings, emotions, thoughts that are used in everyday life. they are personal documents and sources that have been created not for the purpose of research, but during the course of ordinary life. Diaries and letters are examples of life documents.
Life documents tend to be qualitative in nature as they are about what other people think, and often how they feel. They are expressions of ideas that might allow a researcher to understand what it means to be someone. In this way using life documents might be seen to allow verstehen.
During the class, we had done activity on making our own life document. The students made letters and pretend they had been in jail and that they are writing it to their loved ones.
diary of a girl who lived in the year 1907.
Life documents tend to be qualitative in nature as they are about what other people think, and often how they feel. They are expressions of ideas that might allow a researcher to understand what it means to be someone. In this way using life documents might be seen to allow verstehen.
During the class, we had done activity on making our own life document. The students made letters and pretend they had been in jail and that they are writing it to their loved ones.
Other than letters, diaries can also be used by researches to help them to get in-depth view on the situation. Hence allowing 'verstehen' for researches and giving valid data for them. This is because diaries are personal belonging which can provide rich detail from the person's own point of view. Example a diary of a German soldier during The Great War allow people who read it to see the war from the enemy's side.
diary of a girl who lived in the year 1907.a diary of a German who lived in the war time. 
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