Cultural Sociology: Decoding Facts and Variables

Biernacki, R.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-08-08

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137007261

DOI: 10.1057/9781137007285

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 199