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Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables (Cultural Sociology)
Richard Richardbiernacki
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Description for Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables (Cultural Sociology)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Cultural Sociology. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Sociology
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137007261
SKU
V9781137007261
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99-15
About Richard Richardbiernacki
Richard Biernacki is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.
Reviews for Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables (Cultural Sociology)
"Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry throws serious grit into the knowledge-making machinery of much modern sociology. It is an invitation to sociologists to stop and pause, to take a closer look at some of their methodological routines, and to re-assess the confidence with which they view their findings. Biernacki's criticisms are meticulously assembled, and they cannot be ignored." - Steven ... Read more