Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry
Author | : R. Biernacki |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2012-08-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137007285 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137007281 |
Rating | : 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Download or read book Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry written by R. Biernacki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.