Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry : Decoding Facts and Variables
by
R. Biernacki
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cultural Sociology
ISBN-10
1137007273
ISBN-13
9781137007278
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2012
Print length
199 Pages
Weight
314 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.30 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Sociology
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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.
Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry overthrows the techniques for coding evidence that pervade the modern social sciences. Natural scientists produce facts and humanists interpret meanings. But what happens when social scientists who study culture try to forge a hybrid between the two? On the surface, they classify cultural meanings to produce facts or variables. With stunning case examples, this book dismantles the facts as circular inventions with no existence outside the false rituals in which they are spun. Social investigators must reclaim their roots with more direct, testable methods for recognizing patterns in human testimony.
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