The Dog in the Night-Time: Negative Evidence in Social Research

Lewis, George H.; Lewis, Jonathan F.

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“…We coded these cases as evidence of an assumed common knowledge where there was a standard (i.e., global) meaning without need of technical or specialty (i.e., local) elaboration. We anchor this decision in a methodological tradition that views assumed, unspecified, or "missing" data as themselves providing a unique type of data (Lewis and Lewis, 1980;Stinchcombe, 1964). We treat the absence of an explicit definition of business model as a datum, that is, as a proxy for the assumption of tacit, commonly agreed upon meaning.…”

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Keywords and Cultural Change: Frame Analysis of Business Model Public Talk, 1975–2000

2005

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Keywords and Cultural Change: Frame Analysis of Business Model Public Talk, 1975–2000

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“…Obviously, positive evidence is an indispensible part of scientific inquiry. But not attending to negative evidence is problematic because it can lead theories to appear more valid than they are in reality, which can stunt theoretical development (see also Duneier, 2011;Lewis & Lewis, 1980;Popper, 2002Popper, [1959). There are seven types of negative evidence (Lewis & Lewis, 1980).…”

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“…After summarizing findings on alcoholrelated crime, we outline and discuss the connections that have not received attention in the literature and suggest reasons for the lack of inquiry on these topics; the purpose of this latter section is to advance the field by suggesting fruitful areas for future work, which are summarized and elaborated on in the concluding section. This exploration of the unknown is cast in the conceptual and theoretical framework of Lewis and Lewis (1980), described below.…”

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“…Negative evidence in social science research Lewis and Lewis' (1980) article The Dog in the Night is concerned with 'the significance of a thing's absence' (p. 545)or what they term negative evidencein social science research. Their article begins with an excerpt from a fictional work, Silver Blaze, that involves Sherlock Holmes and Colonel Ross going over the peculiarities of a crime scene: [Colonel Ross:] Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?…”

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Alcohol-related crime among college students: a review of research and fruitful areas for future work

Allen

Jacques

2013

Criminal Justice Studies

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College and alcohol are a potent mix. This paper reviews what is known and unknown about college students' involvement in alcohol-related crime as both offenders and victims. There are three types of alcohol-related crime: psychopharmacological; economic compulsive; and systemic. Research on college students, however, has focused entirely on the first type. Why are the latter two types untouched in the literature? After reviewing research on alcohol-involved psychopharmacological crime among college students, we address this question by drawing on Lewis & Lewis' taxonomy of 'negative evidence.' We outline and assess reasons for the dearth of information on these topics, and draw on these explanations to suggest fruitful areas for future research.

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“…One could also turn the question around and deal with negative evidence (Lewis and Lewis, 1980). What aspects of social life are not symbolized-or are hugely distorted-in the cultural realm, and why have they been excluded or distorted?…”

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Between Consciousness and Existence: Popular Culture and the Sociological Imagination

Lewis

1982

The J of Popular Culture

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In speaking of the symbolic culture of communication, especially as it affected the emerging new middle class in post World War I1 America, C.Wright Mills noted in his influential White Collar that "between consciousness and existence stand communications, which influence such consciousness as men have of their existence.. . . This communication reflects society, but selectively; it reinforces certain features by generalizing them, and out of its selections and reinforcements creates a world. Insofar as people live beyond their immediate range of contacts, it is in this world they must live" (Mills, 1956: 332-334). A great deal of that which stands between consciousness and existence for us all is culture-especially popular culture, the everyday symbolic meaning systems we build from the music we hear, the films we watch, the books we read, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the games we play. It is the sociological study of this culture about which I am concerned and about which these remarks are directed. The Classical Research Approach: Culture as Mirror of SocietyWestern sociology-most especially American sociology-has had a difficult time with the study of culture. The classic research tradition in this field-to the extent it has been followed through the years-has been primarily a n historical and critical one. Rich analyses of specific cultural works or traditions, such as that of Lowenthal(1961), have been undertaken to better understand the societies, classes or groups for whom they were produced. What seemed to be taken for granted was the assumption that, generally, culture reflected central social or psychological concerns of a society or period, so that one could understand that society through analysis of the meanings present in its cultural creations. This classic tradition has, of course, now run aground. The assumption that culture "mirrors" society is just too simplistic, too vulnerable. It does not lead to theoretical models that show how culture and society are linked in any sort of precise manner. It does not point to a way to discover the social and psychological concerns culture reflects, besides the fact that they are found in the culture itself. A model that includes the assumption that culture as mirror has, in sum, been unable to generate new problems for investigation. This has contributed to the fact that, apart from some isolated (but admittedly well done studies), there h a s been relatively little cumulative empirical work done in the area of the sociology of popular culture in the past forty years-most especially American sociology (Lewis, 1978).

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The Dog in the Night-Time: Negative Evidence in Social Research

Cited by 21 publications

References 4 publications

Keywords and Cultural Change: Frame Analysis of Business Model Public Talk, 1975–2000

Keywords and Cultural Change: Frame Analysis of Business Model Public Talk, 1975–2000

Alcohol-related crime among college students: a review of research and fruitful areas for future work

Between Consciousness and Existence: Popular Culture and the Sociological Imagination

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