Bruno, Isabelle
The Social Sciences of Quantification
1. Introduction. The Social Sciences of Quantification in France: An Overview
Isabelle Bruno, Florence Jany-Catrice, Béatrice Touchelay
Part I. Sociology of Quantification: Alain Desrosières’s contributions
2. Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosières: the history and sociology of quantification
Michel Armatte
3. Alain Desrosières’s reflexive numbers
Luc Boltanski
4. Alain Desrosières’s spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist
Emmanuel Didier
5. From
Roser Cussó
6. Learning from the history of the probabilistic revolution: the French school of Alain Desrosières
Fabrice Bardet
Part II. The Statistical Argument in the Neoliberal Era
7. 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
8. Counting the homeless in Europe: ‘compare before harmonising’
Cécile Brousse
9. The statistical backbone of the new European economic governance: the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure Scoreboard
Gilles Raveaud
10. Evaluating public policies or measuring the performance of public services?
Florence Jany-Catrice
Part III. Uses of Quantification : Power and Resistance
11. Private accounting, statistics and national accounting in France: a unique relationship (1920-1960s)
Béatrice Touchelay
12. Figures for what purposes? The issues at stake in the struggles to define and control the uses of statistics
Marion Gilles
13. The uses of quantification: power and resistance. The example of unemployment statistics
Pierre Concialdi
14. Statistical argument: construction, uses and controversies. Prices and purchasing power
Alain Gély, Bernard Sujobert, Béatrice Touchelay
15. The quantification of the social sciences: an historical comparison
Alain Desrosières
Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Methodology of the Social Sciences
- Editor
- Bruno, Isabelle
- Jany-Catrice, Florence
- Touchelay, Béatrice
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
- Category
- Philosophy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319440002
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-43999-0