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Walter Lippmann: A Content Analysis.
- Source :
- Public Opinion Quarterly; Summer50, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p296-302, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 1950
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Abstract
- There are several possible approaches to the study of these opinion-makers. One is the conventional historian's technique of gathering myriad facts about the subject, organizing this material into an acceptable pattern-topical, chronological, or both-and writing the most readable account the author's talents permit. Many great and important studies have employed just this procedure. But in recent decades this so-called anecdotal approach has been brought into question by a group of social scientists who deplore what they regard as a lack of objectivity inherent in the method. The conventional historian's area of discretion, they contend, is so vast that his selection of facts must be largely a subjective one. He is constantly harassed by questions of what to include and what to leave out; and how much one fact is worth as against another. All relevant data must then be tested against these points of reference.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0033362X
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Public Opinion Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11928019
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/266185