Measure and value
By: edited by Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Sociological review monographs -- 8
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781444339581
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Methodology; Evaluation; Social sciences; Research
Description: "Explores how issues of measure and value are emerging as central in current debates concerning the capacity of social science and cognate disciplines to engage contemporary social and cultural life  Debates the restructuring of time, scale, number, pattern and sequence Investigates the changing character and properties of data, evidence and the empirical Questions if we do need new forms of measure and what different forms of measure actually do? Addresses these and related questions to place issues of measure and value at the core of contemporary social science debate"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.