Researching a confessional society

David Beer

It would seem that Web 2.0 is increasingly being seen as providing researchers with a range of new possibilities and opportunities.
  

Researching a confessional society

David BeerUniversity of York

INTRODUCTION

Mike Savage and Roger Burrows (2007) have written recently about what they describe as a 'coming crisis of empirical sociology'. According to the authors this crisis is driven by an emergent tension between traditional social research techniques, which look increasingly limited in terms of scope and depth of insight, contrasted against the vast transactional database resources used for analysis by the business sector. The problem, they contend, is that, in a context where 'data on whole populations' are 'routinely gathered as a by-product of institutional transactions' (Savage &...

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