Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
Science in context
7 (1994), S. 389-407
ISSN:
0269-8897
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
History
,
Natural Sciences in General
Notes:
The ArgumentQuantification is not merely a strategy for describing the social and natural worlds, but a means of reconfiguring them. It entails the imposition of new meanings and the disappearance of old ones. Often it is allied to systems of experimental or administrative control, and in fact considerable feats of human organization are generally required even to create stable, reasonably standardized measures. This essay urges that the uses of quantification in science, social science, and bureaucratic social and economic policy are analogous in important ways to accountancy.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0269889700001757
Permalink
|
Location |
Call Number |
Expected |
Availability |