Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry [electronic resource] : Decoding Facts and Variables /
Biernacki, R.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Inside the rituals of social science -- "The entire story" -- "Methodological canons in my field" -- "A quantifiable indicator of a fabricated meaning element" -- Wary reasoning.
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.
Sociology.
Sociology, general.