Who theorizes age? The “Socio-Demographic Variables” device and age-period-cohort analysis in the rhetoric of survey research

In this paper we argue that quantitative survey-based social research essentializes age, through specific rhetorical tools. We outline the device of ‘socio-demographic variables’ and we discuss its argumentative functions, looking at scientific survey-based analyses of adult scientific literacy, in...

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Main Authors: Cosima Rughinis, Bogdana Huma
Format: Default Article
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Sociological methodology and research methods
Sociology and social studies of science and technology
Sociology not elsewhere classified
Other human society not elsewhere classified
Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified
Age
Aging
Rhetoric of inquiry
Socio-demographic variables
Survey
Public Understanding of Science
Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Sociology
Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/18861
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