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Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

Creator:

Owen, Lois Darling

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological approach which would tap the contribution of the literary artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would yield data which was complimentary, if not...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

Porterfield, 1957) have pointed out that literature, and specifically fiction, might provide a source of in