The mutual construction of statistics and society
By: edited by Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Heidi Mork Lomell, and Svein Hammer.
Contributors: Saetnan, Ann Rudinow.; Lomell, Heidi Mork.; Hammer, Svein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge advances in research methods -- v. 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780415873703
Subjects: Statistics; Public administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Numbers : their relation to power and organization / Jon Hovland; title: Words and numbers : for a sociology of the statistical argument / Alain Desrosières; title: Sociology in the making : statistics as a mediator between the social sciences, practice, and the state / Christopher Kullenberg; title: Governing by indicators and outcomes : a neo-liberal governmentality? / Svein Hammer; title: Ethnicity : differences and measurements / Ellen Balka and Kjetil Rodje; title: Seeing like citizens : unofficial understandings of official racial categories in a Brazilian university / Luisa Farah Schwartzman; title: Ideas in action : "human development" and "capability" as intellectual boundary objects / Asun Lera St. Clair; title: Labelling and tracking the criminal in mid-nineteenth century England and Wales : the relationship between governmental structures and creating official numbers / Chris Williams; title: From categorization to public policy : the multiple roles of electronic triage / Ellen Balka; title: Making sense of numbers : the presentation of crime statistics in the Oslo police annual reports 1950-2008 / Heidi Mork Lomell; title: Statistics on a website : governing schools by numbers / Svein Hammer and Sigrunn Tvedten; title: Locating the worths of performance indicators : performing transparencies and accountabilities in health care / Sonja Jerak-Zuyderent and Roland Bal; title: Co-constructing medical diagnosis practice and hospital activity statistics : how coding practices turn patients into numbers / Gunnhild Tøndel; title: GIS in practice : domestication of statistics in policing / Helene I. Gundhus.