What we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter. This volume addresses why and how students and scholars must become more aware of the power and the limitations of statistics.
Edited by:
Ann Rudinow Saetnan,
Heidi Mork Lomell,
Svein Hammer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: v. 2
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9780415873703
ISBN 10: 0415873703
Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 20 July 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: By the Very Act of Counting: The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society Ann Rudinow Sætnan, Heidi Mork Lomell and Svein Hammer Section 1: Overarching Themes and Approaches 1. Numbers: Their Relation to Power and Organization Jon Hovland 2. Words and Numbers: For a Sociology of the Statistical Argument Alain Desrosières 3. Sociology in the Making: Statistics as a Mediator Between the Social Sciences, Practice, and the State Christopher Kullenberg 4. Governing by Indicators and Outcomes: A Neo-Liberal Governmentality? Svein Hammer Section 2: Visibility, Invisibility and Transparency 5. Ethnicity: Differences and Measurements Ellen Balka and Kjetil Rodje 6. Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University Luisa Farah Schwartzman 7. Ideas in Action: ‘Human Development’ and ‘Capability’ as Intellectual Boundary Objects Asun Lera St. Clair Section 3: Accountability and Manageability 8. Labelling and Tracking the Criminal in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and Wales: The Relationship Between Governmental Structures and Creating Official Numbers Chris Williams 9. From Categorization to Public Policy: The Multiple Roles of Electronic Triage Ellen Balka 10. Making Sense of Numbers: The Presentation of Crime Statistics in the Oslo Police Annual Reports 1950-2008 Heidi Mork Lomell 11. Statistics on a Website: Governing Schools by Numbers Svein Hammer and Sigrunn Tvedten 12. Locating the Worths of Performance Indicators: Performing Transparencies and Accountabilities in Health Care Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent and Roland Bal Section 4: Reporting and Acts of Resistance 13. Co-Constructing Medical Diagnosis Practice and Hospital Activity Statistics: How Coding Practices Turn Patients into Numbers Gunnhild Tøndel 14. GIS in Practice: Domestication of Statistics in Policing Helene I. Gundhus
Ann Rudinow Satnan is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Svein Hammer is a Post-doc in the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Heidi Mork Lomell is Post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo.
