Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables (Cultural Sociology) - Softcover

Book 6 of 27: Cultural Sociology

Biernacki, R.

 
9781137007278: Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables (Cultural Sociology)

Synopsis

Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates that the celebrated hard outputs rest on misleading samples and on unfeasible classifying of the texts' meanings.

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About the Author

Richard Biernacki is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

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