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30 april 1980 en de journalistiek, kanttekeningen bij het journalistieke perspectief

Auteurs

  • Engbersen,Godfried
  • Beek,Ed van de
  • Veen,Romke van der

Trefwoorden:

Netherlands, Journalists, Sociologists, 1980 Amsterdam, Riots coverage, Interviews

Samenvatting

Journalists & sociologists have frequently criticized each other for having too narrow a focus in their examination of social phenomena. To test the hypothesis that the journalists are better social scientists than are the sociologists themselves, an analysis was conducted of 12 Dutch newspaper articles & radio & TV reports on the Amsterdam riots of 30 Apr 1980. Additionally, interview data were collected from journalists (N = 38) concerning their coverage & analyses of the causes of the disturbances. It is shown that the journalists have a naive empirical concept of reality & are preoccupied with the institutionalization of their own profession; their description of social reality suffers from these limitations. Thus, sociologists are better social scientists than journalists, in contrast to the hypothesis. Modified HA.

Biografieën auteurs

Engbersen,Godfried

Beek,Ed van de

Veen,Romke van der

Gepubliceerd

1984-05-01

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