Coding, counting and cultural cartography
Coding, counting and cultural cartography
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编码、计数和文化制图
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2015
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J. Martin
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Monica M. Lee;J. Martin
理查德·比尔纳基（Richard Biernacki）通过艰苦的尝试来复制文化的正式分析的编码，得出结论认为，这种将严格性引入文化分析的努力是徒劳的。编码对材料的本质进行了内在的暴力，并强加了解释，而不是以一种可以使它们受到批评的方式将它们提取出来。在这里，我们认为，Biernacki的索赔与编码的内在问题是有效的，但他们并不一定意味着，唯一形式的辩护分析的文化材料是一个传统的人文主义。相反，它们也可能被认为是暗示我们需要进一步朝着形式主义的方向前进。在分析之前不需要强加解释，而是浓缩信息以促进主体间有效的解释的形式技术，不会受到Biernacki所指出的问题的影响，并为文化分析提供了一条独特的社会学贡献的道路。此外，尽管这些技术简化了它们的源代码，但它们以地图简化的方式做到了这一点-它们使模式可用于联合探索。
Richard Biernacki has, through painstaking attempts to replicate the codings of formal analyses of culture, concluded that such efforts to bring rigor into cultural analysis are futile. Coding does intrinsic violence to the nature of the material, and imposes interpretations as opposed to drawing them out in such a way that they can be made subject to critique. Here we argue that Biernacki’s claims as to the intrinsic problems with coding are valid, but they do not necessarily imply that the only form of defensible analysis of cultural materials is a conventional humanistic one. Instead, they may just as well be taken to imply that we need to move further in the direction of formalism. Formal techniques that do not involve imposition of interpretation before the analysis, but rather condense information to facilitate an intersubjectively valid interpretation, do not suffer from the problems identified by Biernacki, and offer a path for a distinctly sociological contribution to cultural analysis. Further, although such techniques simplify their source works, they do so in the way a map simplifies – they make patterns accessible for joint exploration.