Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables

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

Author: R. Biernacki
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/08/2012
Pages: 199
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781137007278

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2013

About the Author
Richard Biernacki is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.