Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated
This article transcends the issue of conflicting theoretical schools of thought to formulate a method of social scientific style theory evaluation for cultural studies. It is suggested that positivist social scientific models of theory critique can be used to assess cultural models of communication...
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Hungarian Communication Studies Association
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| description | This article transcends the issue of conflicting theoretical schools of thought to formulate a method of social scientific style theory evaluation for cultural studies. It is suggested that positivist social scientific models of theory critique can be used to assess cultural models of communication to determine if they should be classified as theories. A set of evaluation criteria is formulated as a guide and applied to Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding to determine if it is a theory. Conclusions find the sharing of criteria
between schools of thought is judicious, Encoding/Decoding fits the established criteria, and Encoding/Decoding should be referred to as a theory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68e1ce4f89564940b7a85d0a2fb3957f2022-12-22T01:44:39ZengHungarian Communication Studies AssociationKOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry2063-73302015-12-0132102610.17646/KOME.2015.22Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding EvaluatedEvan L. Kropp0Reinhardt UniversityThis article transcends the issue of conflicting theoretical schools of thought to formulate a method of social scientific style theory evaluation for cultural studies. It is suggested that positivist social scientific models of theory critique can be used to assess cultural models of communication to determine if they should be classified as theories. A set of evaluation criteria is formulated as a guide and applied to Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding to determine if it is a theory. Conclusions find the sharing of criteria between schools of thought is judicious, Encoding/Decoding fits the established criteria, and Encoding/Decoding should be referred to as a theory.http://komejournal.com/files/KOME_EvanKropp.pdfTheory EvaluationCriteria of TheoryCultural StudiesStuart HallEncoding/Decoding |
| spellingShingle | Evan L. Kropp Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry Theory Evaluation Criteria of Theory Cultural Studies Stuart Hall Encoding/Decoding |
| title | Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated |
| title_full | Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated |
| title_fullStr | Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated |
| title_short | Using Social Scientific Criteria to Evaluate Cultural Theories: Encoding/Decoding Evaluated |
| title_sort | using social scientific criteria to evaluate cultural theories encoding decoding evaluated |
| topic | Theory Evaluation Criteria of Theory Cultural Studies Stuart Hall Encoding/Decoding |
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