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The mutual construction of statistics and society /

Authors: Saetnan, Ann Rudinow.%editor | Lomell, Heidi Mork.%editor | Hammer, Svein.%editor Series: Routledge advances in research methods ; . 2. Published by : Routledge, (New York :) Physical details: xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN: 0415873703 Subject(s): Statistics. | Public administration. Year: 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Numbers : their relation to power and organization / Jon Hovland -- Words and numbers : for a sociology of the statistical argument / Alain Desrosi�eres -- Sociology in the making : statistics as a mediator between the social sciences, practice, and the state / Christopher Kullenberg -- Governing by indicators and outcomes : a neo-liberal governmentality? / Svein Hammer -- Ethnicity : differences and measurements / Ellen Balka and Kjetil Rodje -- Seeing like citizens : unofficial understandings of official racial categories in a Brazilian university / Luisa Farah Schwartzman -- Ideas in action : "human development" and "capability" as intellectual boundary objects / Asunci�on Lera St. Clair -- Labeling and tracking the criminal in mid-nineteenth century England and Wales : the relationship between governmental structures and creating official numbers / Chris Williams -- From categorization to public policy : the multiple roles of electronic triage / Ellen Balka -- Making sense of numbers : the presentation of crime statistics in the Oslo police annual reports 1950-2008 / Heidi Mork Lomell -- Statistics on a website : governing schools by numbers / Svein Hammer and Sigrunn Tvedten -- Locating the worths of performance indicators : performing transparencies and accountabilities in health care / Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent and Roland Bal -- Constructing mirrors, constructing patients--with high stakes statistics / Gunnhild T�ndel -- GIS in practice : domestication of statistics in policing / Helene I. Gundhus.

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