Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry Decoding Facts and Variables |
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| Author:
| Biernacki, Richard
RichardBiernacki, Richard |
| Series title: | Cultural Sociology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-137-00726-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2012 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.