The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies

Book Overview

PART 1: Sociology of Quantification: Alain Desrosi?res's contributions Chapter 1. Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosi?res: the history and sociology of quantification; Michel Armatte.- Chapter 2. Alain Desrosi?res's reflexive numbers Luc Boltanski.- Chapter 3. Alain Desrosi?res's spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist; Emmanuel Didier.- Chapter 4. From statistics to international quantification: a dialogue with Alain Desrosi?res; Roser Cuss?.- Chapter 5. Learning from the history of the probabilistic revolution: the French school of Alain Desrosi?res; Fabrice Bardet PART 2. THE STATISTICAL ARGUMENT IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA CHAPTER 6. Quantifying the effects of public action on the unemployed: disputes between experts and the rethinking of labour market policies in France (1980‐2000); Etienne Penissat.- CHAPTER 7. Counting the homeless in Europe: 'compare before harmonising'; C?cile Brousse.- CHAPTER 8. The statistical backbone of the new European economic governance: the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure Scoreboard; Gilles Raveaud.- CHAPTER 9. Evaluating public policies or measuring the performance of public services?; Florence Jany‐Catrice PART 3: USES OF QUANTIFICATION: POWER AND RESISTANCE CHAPTER 10. Private accounting, statistics and national accounting in France: a unique relationship (1920‐1960s); B?atrice Touchelay.- CHAPTER 11: Figures for what purposes? The issues at stake in the struggles to define and control the uses of statistics; Marion Gilles.- CHAPTER 12: The uses of quantification: power and resistance. The example of unemployment statistics.- Chapter 13: Statistical argument: construction, uses and controversies Prices and purchasing power; Alain G?ly.- CHAPTER 14: The quantification of the social sciences: an historical comparison; Alain Desrosi?res.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319829564
• ISBN13: 9783319829562
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"