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Quantification and objectivity: from statistical conventions to social conventions
Quantifizierung und Objektivität: von statistischen Konventionen zu sozialen Konventionen
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Abstract Standard quantification processes and most often their analysis are derived from statistics' technique and approach. Social conventions are at the core of daily life, practical knowledge and coordination between people; statistical conventions are at the heart of cognitive activities developed by st... mehr
Standard quantification processes and most often their analysis are derived from statistics' technique and approach. Social conventions are at the core of daily life, practical knowledge and coordination between people; statistical conventions are at the heart of cognitive activities developed by statisticians. What does quantification mean when addressed from the wider point of view of social conventions? This article analyzes the differences between social and statistical conventions. It enlarges the concept of objectivity in having recourse to the lenses of the plurality of worlds as defined by the economics of convention (EC), and to the concept of the informational basis of judgement in justice introduced by Amartya Sen. A wider conception of quantification processes in the social world can thus be elaborated, which opens fresh views on what become, in these processes, the concepts of facts and democracy. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Sen, A.; Konvention; Objektivität; Demokratie; Gerechtigkeit; Statistik; Standardisierung; Quantifizierung
Klassifikation
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 118-134
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 2
Heftthema
Conventions and quantification - transdisciplinary perspectives on statistics and classifications
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.2.118-134
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)