Four Ways to Measure Culture
Social Science, Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5776033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C M Rawlings (0000-0002-9395-4748, Stanford University), Craig Rawlings, John W Mohr (0009-0004-5300-7940, University of California, Santa Barbara), John Mohr (0000-0002-0746-4110) |
| Editors | Jeffrey C Alexander (0000-0003-3600-8023), Ronald N Jacobs, Philip Smith (0000-0001-7781-4350) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 818 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Oxford handbook of cultural sociology (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.4 |
| OpenAlex | W2634086577 |
| Open Library | OL25219175M |
| ISBN | 9780195377767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 57 |
This article considers four of the ways in which measurement practices have been applied to create formal models of culture in the social sciences. It first examines the nature of formal measurement models in the social sciences and compares this mode of scholarship to more hermeneutic styles of research, paying attention to debates over method in the social sciences before and after the cultural turn. It then discusses four different types of formal (measurement) models that have been especially important to the cultural sciences over the last century: pre-cultural turn/non-hermeneutic, pre-cultural turn/hermeneutic, post-cultural turn/non-hermeneutic, and post-cultural turn/hermeneutic. It also cites an exemplar figure for each model, namely, Alfred Kroeber, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paul DiMaggio, and Harrison White, respectively. Finally, it revisits the problem of how to conceptualize a scientific hermeneutics by comparing the theorization of the practice of data analysis to Paul Ricoeur's theorization of the practice of text analysis
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |