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.

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

Inhalt
The Ritual Creation of 'Fact' from Coding The Entire Story Methodological Canons in My Field A Quantifiable Indicator of a Fabricated Meaning Element Wary Reasoning