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Reverse engineering and emotional attachments as mechanisms mediating the effects of quantification
Reverse Engineering und emotionale Bindungen als Mechanismen, die die Effekte der Quantifizierung vermitteln
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Abstract Alain Desrosières understood statistics as simultaneous representations of the world and interventions in it. This article examines two mechanisms that mediate how numbers do both. The first, reverse engineering, describes how working backwards from a desired number shapes organizational routines. T... mehr
Alain Desrosières understood statistics as simultaneous representations of the world and interventions in it. This article examines two mechanisms that mediate how numbers do both. The first, reverse engineering, describes how working backwards from a desired number shapes organizational routines. The second, emotional attachment, describes the processes by which numbers generate a variety of emotions that sometimes stimulate collective identities. Focusing on educational rankings but including examples of other types of numbers, it argues for the importance of disclosing the effects of specific causal mechanisms in the analysis of particular performance measures.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
statistische Analyse; Ranking; statistische Methode; soziale Umwelt; Emotionalität; Wissenstransfer; Quantifizierung; Gefühl; Kausalität
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Desrosières, Alain; reverse engineering
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 280-304
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 2
Heftthema
Conventions and quantification - transdisciplinary perspectives on statistics and classifications
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.2.280-304
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)