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A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups

Abstract:

Provoking a conversation among a small group of people gathered in a room has become a widespread way of generating useful knowledge.1 The focus group is today a pervasive technology of social investigation, a versatile experimental setting where a multitude of ostensibly heterogeneous issues, from politics to economics, from voting to spending, can be productively addressed.2 Marketing is the field in which the focus group has acquired its most visible and standardized form, as an instrument...

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Blackwell Publishing
Publication date:
2007-08-10
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oai:eureka.sbs.ox.ac.uk:139
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2011-05-18

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