POLSCI 3N06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Post-Structuralism, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis
5 Dec 2015
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Political science 3n06 2015 lecture 10c unobtrusive methods (discourse analysis) Content analysis is useful for revealing the manifest (and even latent) content of text. In this light, an alternative approach to analysing text is discourse analysis. There are different types of discourse analysis - types that are informed by different theories and even different underlying epistemologies. There are positivist, marxist, critical, and post-structuralist variants. Nevertheless, there are some commonalities (bearing in mind that there is a continuum on these issues: discourse analysis is not just concerned with words on a page. A text must be analysed in terms of the broader social context: the social context that produced the text, institutions, agents, power structures. The context of a document"s, creation, distribution, and reception, must be considered what is: reality is socially constructed (a continuum of positions here) Discourse is not just a passive record of what was it also helps to actively determine.
