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Advantages and limitations of text analysis to reveal the strategic action of social actors. The example of Cultural Diversity

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Cabedoche, professor of information and communication sciences (Gresec), president of the world network Orbicom UNESCO chairs on communication Among the available methodological tools for Phd students, technics for the analysis of written documents figure prominently. However, the call for this technics was not always so obvious for Information and Communication Sciences. Certainly, during the period of constitution of the discipline in the second half of twentieth century, to go back to the ground-thanks to the return to the original texts and discourses of social actors-allowed to go beyond the excesses of structuralism, in its most radical versions in the 60s: at this period, some leaders of this school neglected this in order to reveal the importance of structures, regardless of the intentions and actions of individuals (Althusser, 1965, Althusser, Balibar, 1968), as recalled by its critics: 'la subjectivité remplace le respect pour l'écrit, parce qu'elle se prétend rigoureuse, parce qu'elle s'affirme 'décodage parfait'. Autant de prétentions abusives' 1 (Lefebvre, 1969: 3-37). With the evolution of theories considering the Humain Being as a whole subject, textual analysis is recognized again, as it left its systematically unveiling function: now, it is no longer limited to question how Politic and Ideology infuse uses of words and structure of discourses. Instead of reducing the discourses of social actors to the expression of ideological illusions, this technical method considers seriously claims and skills of ordinary people, and helps us to distinguish the different logics of social actors, thanks to the Comprehensive sociology approach inspired by Max Weber, and in the same 1 'Subjectivity replaces respect for the written word, because it claims to rigorous, because it says itself as 'perfect' decoding. But so many abusive claims! [our translation].
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Bertrand Cabedoche. Advantages and limitations of text analysis to reveal the strategic action of social actors. The example of Cultural Diversity. Leif Kampf, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp and all. (ed.). Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Interventions and Intersections, edition Lumiere, pp. 177-194, 2014. ⟨hal-02021680⟩

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