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Seeing Like a Survey
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In this article, the authors explore a performative understanding of social science method and consider the plausibility of the claim that research methods generate not only representations of reality, but also the realities those representations depict.Abstract:
This article explores a performative understanding of social science method. First, it draws on STS to consider the plausibility of the claim that research methods generate not only representations of reality, but also the realities those representations depict. Second, it undertakes an archaeology of a major survey — a Eurobarometer investigation of European citizens' attitudes to farm animal welfare — in order to explore the character of its performativity. Finally, it considers some of the implications of the performativity of research tools for the future of methods in social science.read more
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The archaeology of knowledge
TL;DR: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now as mentioned in this paper, and book is the window to open the new world.
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What's wrong with a one-world world?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use science, technology, and society (STS) to show that the North is not mono-natural, and that the enactment of mononaturalism is (1) indeed an enactment and (2) only partial.
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On the relation between 'visual research methods' and contemporary visual culture
TL;DR: One of the most striking developments across the social sciences in the past decade has been the growth of research methods using visual materials as discussed by the authors, and it is often suggested that this growth is somehow...
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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How to do things with words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX