Silly Social Science Scales: Embracing the Particular
Organizational Aesthetics Cover Issue Vol. 3(1)
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Keywords

Social Science Scales
Particular
Art
Generalizability

How to Cite

TaylorS. (2014). Silly Social Science Scales: Embracing the Particular. Organizational Aesthetics, 3(1), 4-6. Retrieved from https://oa.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/oa/article/view/31

Abstract

I think that there is great power in the particular and in an artful approach to the particular based in staying with your senses and not knowing. For me, it is the great lesson that the arts have to offer the social sciences - that we can embrace subjectivity, contextuality and all the peculiarities of the particular and in doing so, offer insights that are deeper, more universal and more useful than any social science scale, silly or not.

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