Dokumenty osobiste w doświadczeniach badawczych

The article deals with the issue of personal documents treated as a very important, but still rare and underestimated source of knowledge in the social sciences. Personal documents can be used by social researches only if they are rooted in qualitative sociology derived from so called “antipositivistic turn” of 20th century. That is why personal documents are not a “methodological news” but belong to the long and respectable methodological tradition.