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Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry

Decoding Facts and Variables
By:R. Biernacki
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137007261
eText ISBN:9781137007285
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.