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1 online resource (314 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Research Methods |
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Routledge advances in research methods.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: By the Very Act of CountingThe Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society; Part I Overarching Themes and Approaches; 1 Numbers: Their Relation to Power and Organization; 2 Words and Numbers: For a Sociology of the Statistical Argument; 3 Sociology in the Making: Statistics as a Mediator between the Social Sciences, Practice, and the State; 4 Governing by Indicators and Outcomes: A Neoliberal Governmentality?; Part II Visibility, Invisibility and Transparency; 5 Ethnicity: Differences and Measurements |
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6 Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University7 Ideas in Action: "Human Development" and "Capability" as Intellectual Boundary Objects; Part III Accountability and Manageability; 8 Labeling and Tracking the Criminal in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and Wales: The Relationship between Governmental Structures and Creating Official Numbers; 9 From Categoriza |
| Summary |
What we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter. This title addresses why and how students and scholars must become more aware of the power and the limitations of statistics |
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Print version record |
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Statistics.
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Public administration.
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statistics.
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Public administration
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Statistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lomell, Heidi Mork
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Hammer, Svein
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| ISBN |
9780203846612 |
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0203846613 |
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