Four ways to measure culture: Social science, hermeneutics, and the cultural turn

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 70-113

  Mohr, John W ^a   Rawlings, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Research in Education Policy and Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfred Kroeber; Claude L vi Strauss; Cultural turn; Culture; Data analysis; Measurement; Paul Ricoeur; Scientific hermeneutics; Social science; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999442168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.4     Document Type: Chapter

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