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From dashboards to Big Data in HR: three uses of quantification in HR, in the light of sociology of quantification

2018
Human Resources use quantification in several ways. This paper defines and addresses the three main ways: HR dashboards and reports, HR analytics, and Big Data in HR. As those uses are increasingly important with the raise of Big Data or analytics in HR, it seems important to better understand them. The sociology of quantification helps to characterize
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Making room for numbers in self-care. A sociology of self-tracking and quantification practices at different stages of life

2019
Rather than critically examining the uses of self-trackers—digital personal quantification tools—within the “quantified self” movement that emerged in California, this article studies their coherence as an extension of ordinary self-care techniques. It analyzes concrete practices of personal quantification in relation to stages in the life cycle by ...
Dagiral, Éric, Dessajan, Séverine, Legon, Tomas, Martin, Olivier, Pharabod, Anne-Sylvie, Proulx, Serge   +5 more
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Quantification and classification in education: What is at stake?

Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Ann Christin Nilsen
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Ranking Art: Paradigmatic Worldviews in the Quantification and Evaluation of Contemporary Art

Theory, Culture and Society, 2021
Paul Buckermann
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Kant's Symbolic Knowledge vs Materialist Quantification (McGilChrist) & Laboratory Experiments (Kay Deaux) w/ Kant, Nietzsche, Gasset, Heschel, & Heidegger: "knowledge is in the form of categories (symbols) + symbolic "complex" encoded meanings = not quantifiable - E Halas, Balaganapath + R May - where sociology and philosophy meet

There is an Inherent Dilemma between Symbolic Knowledge with Materialist Methodology Rollo May, an American existential psychologist and author, observed "There has been a radical change during the past three decades… Neither term, "symbol" or "myth," even appears in the index of the standard psychology textbooks." He goes on to say that this ...
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‘To assign people their place in society’: School grades and the quantification of merit

Economy and Society, 2023
Noëlle Rohde
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Quantifying Human Resources: The Contributions of Economics and Sociology of Conventions

2023
Clotilde Coron
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Self-quantification and the datapreneurial consumer identity

Consumption Markets and Culture, 2020
John W Schouten
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Constructing audience quantification: Social influences and the development of norms about audience analytics and metrics

New Media and Society, 2020
Rodrigo Zamith, Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Seth C Lewis   +2 more
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‘I’m just a numbers person’: the complexity, nature and effects of the quantification of education

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
Ian Hardy
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