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The Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi (1970-2015): statistics - on the cusp of social sciences and the state
Das Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi (1970-2015): Statistik - an der Spitze der Sozialwissenschaften und des Staates
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Abstract The Centre d’études de l’emploi (CEE) is a Paris-based public research institute. This article will attempt to draw up a social history of quantification viewed through the lens of the Center’s story. Positioned on the cusp of science and State, its own history relates the tension, hesitations, and ... view more
The Centre d’études de l’emploi (CEE) is a Paris-based public research institute. This article will attempt to draw up a social history of quantification viewed through the lens of the Center’s story. Positioned on the cusp of science and State, its own history relates the tension, hesitations, and upheavals that have marked relations between labor and employment administration and social science organisms over the last 45 years. More specifically, it provides insight into the role played by statistics in the effort to combine action and knowledge – and by this we understand both a field of actors with its rules, practices and a myriad of instruments, methods and results.... view less
Keywords
social science; social research; quantitative method; statistics; quantification; theory-practice; research policy; interdisciplinary research; France
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Research Design
Free Keywords
economics of convention
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 72-95
Journal
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 2
Issue topic
Conventions and quantification - transdisciplinary perspectives on statistics and classifications
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.2.72-95
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed