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The mutual construction of statistics and society
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The mutual construction of statistics and society

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Numbers : their relation to power and organization / Jon Hovland
Words and numbers : for a sociology of the statistical argument / Alain Desrosières
Sociology in the making : statistics as a mediator between the social sciences, practice, and the state / Christopher Kullenberg
Governing by indicators and outcomes : a neo-liberal governmentality? / Svein Hammer
Ethnicity : differences and measurements / Ellen Balka and Kjetil Rodje
Seeing like citizens : unofficial understandings of official racial categories in a Brazilian university / Luisa Farah Schwartzman
Ideas in action : "human development" and "capability" as intellectual boundary objects / Asunción Lera St. Clair
Labeling and tracking the criminal in mid-nineteenth century England and Wales : the relationship between governmental structures and creating official numbers / Chris Williams
From categorization to public policy : the multiple roles of electronic triage / Ellen Balka
Making sense of numbers : the presentation of crime statistics in the Oslo police annual reports 1950-2008 / Heidi Mork Lomell
Statistics on a website : governing schools by numbers / Svein Hammer and Sigrunn Tvedten
Locating the worths of performance indicators : performing transparencies and accountabilities in health care / Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent and Roland Bal
Constructing mirrors, constructing patients
with high stakes statistics / Gunnhild Tøndel
GIS in practice : domestication of statistics in policing / Helene I. Gundhus.

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