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Seeing Like a Survey

Law, John·2009·Cultural Sociology
DOI 10.1177/1749975509105533
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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.

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Authors
Law, J.
Venue
Cultural Sociology
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2009-07
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
239-256
ISSN
  • 1749-9755 (ISSN-L)
  • 1749-9763
DOI
10.1177/1749975509105533
OpenAlex
W2764463078
Cited by
363
References
42
FWCI
55.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
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