Proponents of the production view reject these critiques, claiming that the two features in question are strengths (or neutral characteristics), not weaknesses. As Becker (1989: 282) writes, "Sociologists working in [the art worlds] mode aren't much interested in 'decoding' art works, in finding the work's secret meanings as reflections of society. They prefer to see those works as the result of what a lot of people have done jointly." Peter (1994:177) argues that one of the strengths of the approach is its "nominalist" stance, which suggests that "for purposes of the inquiry at hand, there is nothing unique about any specific symbol system that prevents it being studied with standard social scientific....methods