Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables

by Richard Biernacki

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137007273
• ISBN13: 9781137007278
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"