Origins of applied research in Spain: The biographical method as a source of information for the social and historical analysis of its development.
Keywords:
applied social research, oral testimonies, research industry, biographical method, socio-history.
Abstract
The origins of applied research in Spain are closely linked to the need of modeling the social transformations to develop the consumption society. The oral testimonies and life stories of key characters in that process realize how the distrust towards sociology of the Franco regime promoted a strong focus on commercial research on consumption, concentrating in the Research Industry all the infrastructure and resources necessary for the production of applied social research.Downloads
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2014-02-03
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Hernández Fernández C. (2014). Origins of applied research in Spain: The biographical method as a source of information for the social and historical analysis of its development. Historia y Comunicación Social, 18, 285-298. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2013.v18.44243
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