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What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification [PDF]
Annual Review of Sociology, 2019 Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification have greatly expanded, and there has been a corresponding increase in scholarship on quantification.
Andrea Mennicken, Wendy Nelson Espeland
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The Sociology of Quantification: Where Are We Now?
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2017 A decade ago, Wendy Espeland and Mitchell Stevens published an essay titled “The Sociology of Quantification.” In it, they wrote that “sociologists have generally been reluctant to investigate [quantification] as a sociological phenomenon in its own right.” While accountants, anthropologists, and historians had begun the reflexive study of numbers ...
Hirschman, Daniel, Berman, Elizabeth
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Los juegos políticos del cálculo
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2019 A diversity of modes of quantification in contemporary societies have now been explored, following the path of scholars who inspired this field, such as Alain Desrosières.
David Demortain
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Observation as a method within the context of the debate about quantitative and qualitative approach [PDF]
Sociologija, 2015 Quantitative and qualitative orientations, as dominant in contemporary methodology of social sciences, are based on different forms, parts and types, data. They have their own epistemological specificity. They disintegrate classical sociological
Ilić Vladimir
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Revue de la Régulation, 2014 This thesis examines the exercise of power and its transformations, based on the observation of concrete operations of macroeconomic management in two African countries, Burkina Faso and Mauritania, and one Caribbean territory, Guadeloupe.
Boris Samuel
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How to Evaluate Theory-Based Hypotheses in Meta-Analysis Using an AIC-Type Criterion
Entropy, 2022 Meta-analysis techniques allow researchers to aggregate effect sizes—like standardized mean difference(s), correlation(s), or odds ratio(s)—of different studies. This leads to overall effect-size estimates and their confidence intervals.
Rebecca M. Kuiper
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The contribution of the sociology of quantification to a discussion of objectivity in economics
Économie des conventions, 2012 In this chapter I analyse objectivity in economics from the perspective of the sociology of quantification as the result of 'investments in forms' supporting public action and the public discussion concerning collective ends and means to be pursued. Quantification is guaranteed by 'conventions of quantification' that are the outcome of controversies ...
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Voices in Bioethics, 2022 Photo by Karl Raymund Catabas on Unsplash “After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries – a tremendous, gruesome shadow.
Ryan Lam
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Mondes du TourismeWith data-sharing platforms, such as Airbnb or Booking.com, tourism has experienced a new boom, barely delayed by the Covid-19 health crisis, which has sparked a resurgence of the radical criticism formulated in the 1970s.
Victor Anduze Rivero +2 more
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Revue de la Régulation, 2018 Based on mixed methods, this thesis investigates the social construction of prison statistics. It contributes to econometrics in terms of recidivism behaviors, but also to the sociology of quantification and more broadly to law sociology and economics ...
Anaïs Henneguelle
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