Abstract
How to have an empirical social science based on data, when the practices that produce data are under assault. The skeptics will not be silenced. Criticism comes from all sides (Koro-Ljungberg, 2016). The argument is straightforward: things, words, “become data only when theory acknowledges them as data” (St. Pierre, 2011, p. 621). In a single gesture, doubt replaces certainty, no theory, method, form of data analysis, discourse, genre or tradition has “ a universal and general claim as the ‘right’ or privileged form of authoritative knowledge (Richardson, 2000, p. 928). More is at play .
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