The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society [Hardcover]

Introduction: By the Very Act of Counting: The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society  Ann Rudinow S?tnan, Heidi Mork Lomell and Svein Hammer  Section 1: Overarching Themes and Approaches  1. Numbers: Their Relation to Power and Organization  Jon Hovland  2. Words and Numbers: For a Sociology of the Statistical Argument  Alain Desrosi?res  3. Sociology in the Making: Statistics as a Mediator Between the Social Sciences, Practice, and the State  Christopher Kullenberg  4. Governing by Indicators and Outcomes: A Neo-Liberal Governmentality?  Svein Hammer  Section 2: Visibility, Invisibility and Transparency  5. Ethnicity: Differences and Measurements  Ellen Balka and Kjetil Rodje  6. Seeing Like Citizens: Unofficial Understandings of Official Racial Categories in a Brazilian University  Luisa Farah Schwartzman  7. Ideas in Action: Human Development and Capability as Intellectual Boundary Objects  Asun Lera St. Clair  Section 3: Accountability and Manageability  8. Labelling and Tracking the Criminal in Mid-Nineteenth Century England and Wales: The Relationship Between Governmental Structures and Creating Official Numbers  Chris Williams  9. From Categorization to Public Policy: The Multiple Roles of Electronic Triage  Ellen Balka  10. Making Sense of Numbers: The Presentation of Crime Statistics in the Oslo Police Annual Reports 1950-2008  Heidi Mork Lomell  11. Statistics on a WelS