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Wary Reasoning

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Let me assume two burdens in this concluding chapter. Let me sum up parallels across the three case studies to show why ritual is indispensable to their operation and why sampling and coding texts cannot be repaired for the rubric of science. As the second burden, let me retrieve an alternative research tradition by which cultural investigators may capture focal meanings. Mary Poovey astutely diagnosed the perversities in reifying “facts,” but her postmodern acknowledgment of interlocking theory as “the only source of meaning” justifiably worries archivetethered humanists in an era of scholarship “after the fact:’ The unappreciated critical edge of Max Weber’s ideal-type approach offers a remedy.

What the signs conceal, their application declares.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Biernacki, R. (2012). Wary Reasoning. In: Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137007285_5

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