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Titre Analyse de contenu et entretien non-directif : application au symbolisme de l'habitat
Auteur Henri Raymond
Mir@bel Revue Revue Française de Sociologie
Numéro 1968, 9-2
Rubrique / Thématique
Travaux de l'Institut de Sociologie urbaine
Page 167-179
Résumé anglais Henri Raymond : Content analysis and the non-directive interview : application to the symbolism of the home. The classical type of content analysis usually deals with the relationship of the content in question to variables which express attitudes or to the characteristics of the person who produces the document analysed. The units of analysis should, therefore, be simple and general enough, so that their classification and the study of their covariance with groups of variables are made easier. Content analysis is in this sense, an analysis of themes or units of this type ; the difficulties begin when it is necessary to qualify the content, this is the case when the strength or weakness of certain assertions must be measured more precisely. It follows that the more the analysis is perfected, the more it becomes an end in itself and is a source of information about the person who produces the document. ? The study of the procedures and structures in the document is a step towards the inherent analysis; content analysis gets closer to linguistic analysis. ? The method described is applied to the study of non-directive interviews ; it is based on the hypothesis that, in certain cases the person interviewed uses a given physical unit (in this case the home area) to organize a symbolic unit affecting his social behavior. The analysis is the relationship between physical elements and symbolic elements.
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