WGS202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paradigmatic Analysis, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Hunter-Gatherer
15 Apr 2018
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Can cut and paste from first assignment. A tool to find the presence of certain words or concepts within text. What is a text : everything. In its broadest text: any communicative language, even bodily. Content analysis is used to determine the presence of certain words or context within text or certain images that offers a message. Wells (1862-1929): a teacher, journalist, lecturer and activist: she was a daughter of a free slave investigated the lynching of blacks in u. s. in the south. Her question: was rape the crime for which the lynched person was accused: she though if rape was the crime in which in lunched person was accused (not that they actually had to have done that crime) Method: collected newspaper reports, went to the scenes of the crimes, interviewed eyewitnesses researched 728 lynching in the span of 10 years. In 60, 70, 80s and early 90s, in media they were predominately about subordinate women roles.
