In documentation activities in the field of social sciences there are some problems relating to the principle of their research and survey themselves. Each activity of research, survey and documentation in social sciences is not identical, but all of them are based on libraries. Those activities are thought to be different each other in their characters, purposes and territories. However, documentation is criticized and restricted in the sense of research values as well as the survey activity has been criticized. The research in social sciences menas a formation of the theoretical system, based on the originality of individual researcher. On the contrary, documentation which should support the research activity is restricted by the research itself and is criticized of its incompletion. Such problems as establishment of the initiative in the social science documentation, holding the objectivity of administrative and technological matters, and training for documentalists would not be able to resolve without the inquiry of the principle of the research and survey in social sciences.
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