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Europe-Asia Studies, 2021
National research evaluation systems that use metrics for the assessment of academic institutions are usually regarded as exemplifying the same neoliberal model of governance that, with minor varia...
Mikhail Sokolov
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National research evaluation systems that use metrics for the assessment of academic institutions are usually regarded as exemplifying the same neoliberal model of governance that, with minor varia...
Mikhail Sokolov
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European Journal of Sociology, 2008
AbstractOne of the most notable political developments of the last thirty years has been increasing public and governmental demand for the quantification of social phenomena, yet sociologists generally have paid little attention to the spread of quantification or the significance of new regimes of measurement.
Wendy Nelson Espeland +1 more
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AbstractOne of the most notable political developments of the last thirty years has been increasing public and governmental demand for the quantification of social phenomena, yet sociologists generally have paid little attention to the spread of quantification or the significance of new regimes of measurement.
Wendy Nelson Espeland +1 more
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Notes on the History of Quantification in Sociology--Trends, Sources and Problems
Isis, 1961THE three major nouns in the title of this paper are necessarily vague. Quantification in the social sciences includes mere counting, the development of classificatory dimensions and the systematic use of "social symptoms" as well as mathematical models and an axiomatic theory of measurement.
Paul F Lazarsfeld
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Sociology CompassABSTRACT Sociologists examine various forms of quantification and their consequences. In organizational sociology, the interloper perspective represents the dominant view on quantification, conceptualizing it as a new field actor that creates commercial opportunities through the institutionalization of quantification mechanisms and ...
Joonwoo Son
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Using journal articles to measure the level of quantification in national sociologies
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2014The methods used when samples of journal articles are treated as the basis for measuring levels of quantification in national sociologies are examined. The data come from every identified example in English. It is found that operational definitions of ‘quantitative’ vary, while ‘qualitative’ work is characterised simply by the absence of sophisticated ...
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Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosières: the history and sociology of quantification
2016In this paper we are describing our partnership in research on history of statistics with Alain Desrosieres who pass away in 2013. Then we are tracing his intellectualitinerary : training at Ecole Polytechnique and National School of Statistics, meeting with Pierre Bourdieu, first studies on History in Statistics in 1976 and on ocupational and social ...
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Making room for numbers in self-care
Réseaux, 2019Rather 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 +5 more
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Reflexivity in Statistics as Sociology of Quantification: The Case of Repeat Victimization Modelling
2016In the criminological field, reflexivity in statistics often appears as a methodological problem. Most of the problems emanate from questions of ‘measurement’and are mainly addressed in terms of ‘reliability’, ‘bias’, and ‘error’. There is however another way of discussing quantification in social sciences, but it is rarely used in criminology: the ...
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